CMBC Ref 087252. The Gibbet was a means of execution used in Halifax in the 16th and 17th centuries. This non-working replica was constructed on the site of the original in 1974.
This rather forlorn looking mound is what remained of the infamous Gibbet in the town. The street where it is situated is called Gibbet Street and there is a modern incarnation there today.
The Halifax Gibbet was an early guillotine, or decapitating…