Time Team S04-E02 Llaunceston,.Cornwall

Video Description

Channel 4's archaeology-as-it-happens programme attempts to solve the secret history of a female skeleton found in Launceston, Cornwall. In atrocious weather conditions, the team, try to determine if she was a leper from a 13th century colony, a casualty of the Civil War, a plague victim or put to death after being tried at the Launceston Assizes in the late I6th or early 17th century. After a thorough investigation, the team reach a conclusion and the body is then reburied in the consecrated ground of Launceston church.