Time Team: Nelson's Hospital In the 18th century the Royal Navy was the most successful fighting force in the world. To maintain this status it desperately needed better ways of looking after its sick and wounded, so in 1746 it decided to build the best hospital the country had ever seen, near the Portsmouth dockyard at Haslar. Between 1757 and 1826, thousands of seamen and marines of the Royal Navy are believed to have been buried in a Navy-designed cemetery in a field beside the hospital. Exactly how and where they were buried is not known and, as part of the closure programme, the cemetery has to be excavated, to find out where the burials are and how many there might be.

Starring:

Carenza Lewis, Henry Chapman, Ian Powlesland, John Gater, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Stewart Ainsworth, Tony Robinson, Victor Ambrus

Genre:

Documentary, History