The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden
A Victorian Prison in Devizes
Season 2 Episode 3 of 6
The archaeologists uncover a 19th-century prison with a difference in Wiltshire. Devizes House of Corrections was one of the first panopticon style prisons built in the UK, with its all-seeing central guards' tower which allowed just a handful of guards to monitor and control the lives of hundreds of prisoners. The team want to uncover the prison's lost structures, reveal the secrets of what went on behind its walls and discover just how secure and inescapable it really was
The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden airs on Sky History HD at 6:50 AM, Thursday 6 February. (Subtitles.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
General
Hugh Dennis
Presenter
Jane Barrie Bramwell
Director
Audrey Neil
Series Producer
Steve Wynne
Executive Producer