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Where To Stream Time Team Season 10 Episode 13

Jailhouse Rocks - Appleby, Cumbria

The constabulary in Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, know that their police station dates back to the first gaol ever on the site, built in the 1770s. They also know that two subsequent prisons, from the 1820s and the 1870s, also stood on the site. They've invited 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...