Ogling a Grade One listed 15thcentury manor would be enough for most people but not for the Time Team. They have to rip up the floorboards and look underneath, because somewhere around this Northamptonshire house there should be a fine Saxon hall that once belonged to no less a figure than King Cnut.

Although better known for trying to command the sea in his day, Cnut was also famed as a great hunter. Did this site once play host to the great AngloDanish king and his retinue? Tony and the Team have three days to find out.