Specials · Episode 17

Sheffield Steel City - Sheffield, South Yorkshire

• Release date
• March 22, 2004
• Runtime
• 50 min

The team followed ARCUS, the Archaeological Research and Consultancy at the University of Sheffield, on some of its excavations into Sheffield's industrial past. Early death, deadly machinery and the worst man-made disaster in British history were revealed as Time Team documented the work of the archaeologists who have spent more than six years digging through the remains of a city that was once the biggest producer of steel in the world.