Time Team
Season 8 Episode 13 - The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire
Outside of the city boundaries of Winchester, in what is today known as Hospital Field, once stood the St Mary Magdalen Leper Hospital. Probably founded in around 1140 by Henry of Blois, the superb chapel was recorded in engravings as a ruin in the 17th century. A large portion of the field was used as an army camp during WWI. A 180 metre well is discovered. Other trenches find the remains of the chapel, the Master's house, and the almshouses, as well as the cemetery, where a skull showing signs of leprosy is found. Within the chapel, an unusual double burial appears to be, as found in the records, the former Master of the hospital, followed almost 50 years later by his daughter. Victor sculpts a bust of a leper based on a skull excavated elsewhere. Nicholas Orme explains how lepers were viewed in the Middle Ages.
Episodes in Season 8
An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Normanton, Lincolnshire
49 min
The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire
49 min
The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys
50 min
A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire
50 min
The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen
50 min
A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire
50 min
An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
49 min
The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire
49 min
The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire
49 min
Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland
49 min
The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire
49 min
Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent
49 min
The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire
49 min
