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C298-00092

Unlike gallows which were used to execute people, gibbets were used to display the body as a warning to others. Caxton gibbet is on a small knoll on Ermine Street near Caxton in Cambridgeshire. It was first used in the 1670’s. The last recorded use was 17

Photographer: Ian Langley

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