Photograph: Parish Stocks

PHOTOGRAPH: Parish Stocks.

Copy of lithograph.

Items made by The National Museum of Wales in connection with an exhibition about crime and punishment in Beaumaris Gaol.

Stocks were wooden or metal devices with foot holes used as punishment until the beginning of the 19th century. The convicted individual was seated and had their feet and ankles locked into the device so that the legs were held out straight. A pillory was also a wooden or metal device with holes to lock the convicted individual's head and hands in place. It was impossible to sit while in a pillory. The offender's head was placed between their two hands. It was common practice for the offender to have stones or rotten food thrown at them while in the pillory.

Offenders would remain in the stock or pillory for the duration of their punishment.

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