We preserve the site of Nottinghamshire's old courthouse and county gaol as well as maintaining a vast collection of spine chilling artefacts relating to crime and punishment over the last three centuries Archaeologists are currently on the case in the sandstone caves deep within our building and they have already unearthed some major clues linking us in with punishment and imprisonment from the Saxon period onwards To capture and explain this grim and gruesome history, we use actors, audio guides, guide sheets & boards, lighting, sounds, set dressing and exhibitions The first written record we have of this site being used as a court is in 1375, however this is not to say that it hadn't been a court for centuries before this date