In August 1980, a party of 15 American volunteers arrived at
Repton, Derbyshire, to join an archaeological excavation.
They included businessmen, housewives, students and retired professors, most of whom had never done any archaeology before. All had paid for the privilege of working hard in a muddy trench in a wet English summer. This
Chronicle programme follows their three-week progress as they experience the rain, the Repton mud and the school dormitories.