- and 18th centuries,
gibbets were a
common sight in Bermuda.
Located in Smith's
Parish at the
entrance to Flatt's
Inlet is
Gibbet Island,
which was used...
- The
Gibbet of
Montfaucon (French:
Gibet de Montfaucon) was the main
gallows and
gibbet of the
Kings of
France until the time of
Louis XIII of France. It...
- book as John Bentley's
Halifax and its
Gibbet-Law.
Felons were not
decapitated in Hull, but were tied to
gibbets in the
Humber estuary at low tide and...
-
Gibbet Hill may
refer to:
Gibbet Hill (County Wexford), a
summit and
marilyn in
Ireland Gibbet Hill (M****achusetts), a
summit in the
United States Gibbet...
- were
hanged in
Winchester before being gibbeted at Combe.
After the 1676
gibbet rotted, a
total of 7
replica gibbets have
stood in its place, the most recent...
-
Gibbet Mill may
refer to a
number of windmills:
Gibbet Mill, Rye, East Sus****
Gibbet Mill,
Great Saughall, a
windmill in
Great Saughall, Cheshire, UK Gibbet...
- for pirates, with
executions occurring at one tree in particular, the "
Gibbet Tree". However,
there is
scant evidence that this was
common practice. Little...
- shepherd's crook,
adopted in
English as crosier.
Latin crux
referred to the
gibbet where criminals were executed, a
stake or pole, with or
without transom...
-
Caxton Gibbet is a
small knoll on the
Ermine Street Roman road (now the A1198) in England,
running between London and Huntingdon, near its
crossing with...
-
modern usage the term has come to mean
almost exclusively a
scaffold or
gibbet used for
execution by hanging. The term "gallows" was
derived from a Proto-Germanic...
