Gibbet Cage: A Grim Reminder Of Public Humiliation
The Gibbet Cage is an iron cage suspended from a gallows, used to display the bodies of executed criminals as a grim warning. Gibbet Hill in Lincoln, England, is the site of such a gibbet, with a gruesome history tied to Madam Katherine Caldwell. Caldwell and her accomplice, Gibby, were executed in 1728 for robbing…