Time Team - Season 20 - Eps 15: The Secret of Lincoln Jail

Name: Eps 15: The Secret of Lincoln Jail
Released: 2013-07-30
Rating: 3.6

2013-07-30 • 50 min • ⭐ 7.1/10

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.

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About Time Team

Title: Time Team

First Air Date: 1994-01-16

Last Air Date: 2025-05-20

Status: Returning Series

Rating: 7.1/10 (from 14 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 22

Total Episodes: 246

Network: More4 Channel 4 YouTube

Genres: Documentary, Mystery

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War.