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  2. Stocks - Wikipedia

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    The stocks were employed by civil and military authorities from medieval to early modern times including Colonial America. Public punishment in the stocks was a common occurrence from around 1500 until at least 1748. [ 4 ]

  3. Pillory - Wikipedia

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    The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory. The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. [1]

  4. Tarring and feathering - Wikipedia

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    The use of tar and pitch in punishments appearing in such medieval works as Anglo-Norman sermons, The Purgatory of Saint Patrick by Marie de France and Dante's Inferno have been seen as precursors for the idea of tarring and feathering. The latter also features the element of feathers when a "human thief is painfully transformed into a ...

  5. Finger pillory - Wikipedia

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    In St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. A finger pillory is a style of restraint where the fingers are held in a wooden block, using an L-shaped hole to keep the knuckle bent inside the block. [1]

  6. Medieval pottery workshop — with pieces still in the oven ...

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    Photos show the inside of the main furnace before and after being dismantled. Pottery pieces in the main furnace after it was dismantled. The second oven was smaller, older and likely unusable ...

  7. History of the anchor - Wikipedia

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    All of the above anchors were provide with a stock, the use of which is to "cant" the anchor. If it falls on the ground, resting on one arm and one stock, when a strain is brought on the cable, the stock cants the anchor, causing the arms to lie at a downward angle to the holding ground; and the pees enter and bury themselves below the surface ...

  8. 15 Best Websites for Selling Your Photos Online - AOL

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    15 Best Sites Where You Can Sell Photos Online. Many stock photo websites or online marketplaces buy pictures from photographers to sell stock photos online. However, some stand out in terms of ...

  9. ‘Weird Medieval Guys’: 50 Amusing And Confusing Medieval ...

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    The medieval era started in the 5th Century with the collapse of Roman civilization, lasting all the way to the Renaissance. When exactly the Middle Ages ended varies depending on what historian ...