| has gloss | eng: Caxton Gibbet is a small knoll on Ermine Street (now the A1198) in England, from London to Huntingdon, near its crossing with the road (now the A428) from Oxford to Cambridge. There are tales dating back to the nineteenth century of murderers being hanged and displayed at tye nearby village of Caxton in the 1670’s, and records in a court case that the gibbet was still there in 1745. Several local writers say that it was no longer there by the early decades of the nineteenth century. There is presently a modern replica which can be seen in photographs dating back to 1900 , the erection of which may have been connected with the nearby inn of the same name. |
