Time Team
Season 20 Episode 15 - The Secret of Lincoln Jail
Lincoln has been dominated by its castle for over 1000 years. Its high stone walls and gatehouses were built to impress the locals with Norman power, and it has housed medieval dungeons and Victorian and Georgian jails. Extraordinarily, today the castle is still a centre for justice and punishment, containing an active court. As part of a £19million refurbishment programme, a preparatory archaeological dig at the castle is revealing new secrets about the horrors of its early jails. Sir Tony Robinson and the Time Team cameras have had exclusive access to the dig. With help from Phil Harding and Alex Langlands, Tony traces the story of punishment over the course of a millennium. He discovers that, behind the walls of Lincoln Castle, the Victorians launched an experiment in prison justice that pushed human beings to their limits. Some went mad, many died, and the prison regime broke down in shocking circumstances. In this grim jail in the heart of the city, something went badly wrong.
Episodes in Season 20
The Forgotten Gunners of WWI - Grantham, Lincolnshire
50 min
Brancaster - Brancaster, Norfolk
50 min
A Capital Hill - Ely, Cardiff
50 min
Henham's Lost Mansions - Henham Park, Suffolk
50 min
Warriors - Figheldean, Wiltshire
50 min
Lost Mines of Lakeland - Coniston, Cumbria
50 min
Horseshoe Hall - Oakham Castle, Rutland
50 min
Mystery of the Thames-side Villa - Dropshort, Oxfordshire
50 min
The Lost Castle of Dundrum - Dundrum Castle, County Down
50 min
Wolsey's Lost Palace - The More, Moor Park, Hertfordshire
50 min
An Englishman's Castle - Upton Castle, Cosheston, Pembrokeshire
50 min
The Time Team Guide to Experimental Archaeology
50 min
Twenty Years of Time Team
50 min
Britain's Stone Age Tsunami
50 min
The Secret of Lincoln Jail
50 min
