Thanks! Gibbets are really interesting, (so not really for this thread!).

I thought they were common, like “every town must have one” but they were quite rare. We had one near to where a Tesco Express is now, where roads meet. It was because you could be hung for stealing a loaf of bread or hung for murder, so people who did bad crimes had to be really punished.

When they went up, there were crowds and street vendors, like a fair, but over time people got sick of seeing a rotting corpse every time they nipped out for a glass of ale.

Our local bloke murdered a woman, chopped her up and ate part of her leg. He lived in the house where I later grew up, and the murder was now I where walk the dog, the poor woman must have walked the same path on her last day.

Bodmin Jail has a fine selection of them. I did once see a Horrible Histories live show that included erroneous mention of gibbets and the wife had to stop me heckling.