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1994
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Time Team
The Guerrilla Base of the King - Athelney, Somerset 1 Season 1 Episode
50 min
1994
7.1
In this first ever episode of Time Team, Tony and the team travel to Athelney in Somerset to investigate a series of hills (once islands in a bog) that became Alfred The Great last defensive positions after a series of losses to invading Viking forces. It is also the place Alfred began the great rally that saw him re-conquer most Wessex and laid the foundations of the nation that was to become England.
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16 Jan, 1994
