Classic Time Team Season 8 Episode 2 The Man Who Bought a Castle

Derek Batten bought a plot of land advertised as a castle and moat, but that's left is a mound surrounded by a huge ditch. He has asked Time Team to sort it out. Phil Harding gets kitted-out in chainmail as a Saxon footsoldier, facing a mounted Norman warrior. The site is finally identified as a ringwork castle, built on a previous Saxon structure around the time of the Norman Conquest.