The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

Provides the first extensive examination of  'gibbetting', or 'hanging in chains' since the nineteenth century Explores the processes, technologies and macro-geographies involved in gibbeting  Assesses what the practice tells us about attitudes to bodies, the dead, and to criminals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Sarah Tarlow is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. Before coming to Leicester in 2000 she taught at the University of Wales Lampeter, UK, and has published extensively on the archaeology of death and burial, archaeological theory and on post-medieval archaeology.

Chapter 1: Some Further Terror and Peculiar Mark of Infamy.- Chapter 2: How to Hang in Chains: how, where and when eighteenth-century sheriffs organised a gibbeting.- Chapter 3: The Afterlife of the Gibbet.- Chapter 4: Conclusions: Why Gibbet Anyone?.- Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains 1700-1832.- Appendix 2: Maps, 1752-1834.- Index.