Time Team - Season 10 - Eps 13: Jailhouse Rocks - Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria

Name: Eps 13: Jailhouse Rocks - Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria
Released: 2003-03-30
Rating: 3.6

2003-03-30 • 50 min • ⭐ 7.1/10

The police in Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, know that their station dates back to the first gaol built on the site in the 1770s. They also know that two subsequent prisons, from the 1820s and the 1870s, also stood on the site. They invite Time Team to see what remains of the former prisons underneath their car park. Trench 1 finds the remains of the room where the 1870s prison's treadwheel was, trench 2 finds the remains of the 1770s cell block, which has its own story to tell. Trench 3 discovers the women's prison of the 1820s (previously prisoners were not segregated by sex), which had an underfloor heating system. One archaeologist volunteers to become a Victorian-era prisoner for 24 hours, put to hard labour breaking rocks, turning a crank handle to no purpose, and moving dirt from one pile to another. Finds include part of a warder's uniform and hobnail boots, and a bar from a prison window. Carenza acts as historian for this episode.

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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.