The village is, as the name suggests, on a hill and a steep incline leads to the village green and by the side of this large expanse of grass are the mediaeval stocks, a relic of the village's ancient past. The stocks were a device for the punishment of certain criminal offenders, often for trivial infringements of the law, and were usually the fate of vagabonds and other petty offenders. A tiled canopy protects the wooden baulks of timber that were padlocked together to imprison the feet of miscreants for a set period and this suggests that justice at Witham was tempered with mercy for those incarcerated were protected from the elements. Stocks were last used in England in the middle of the 19th century.

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Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire, Village Stocks

Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure Program: Shutter Priority, Focal length: 70 mm, Aperture: f 4, ISO: 200, Exposure time: 1/200 sec, Metering Mode: Multi-Segment, Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Date/Time Creation: February 22, 2014, 5:22 pm
ImageID:1189186, Image size: 3888 x 2592 pixels

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