Le Carcan du Château - Meung-sur-Loire, France
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N 47° 49.428 E 001° 41.666
31T E 402280 N 5297541
[EN] The reconstruction of a yoke in the ditches of the castle of Meung sur Loire. [FR] La reconstitution d'un carcan dans les fossés du château de Meung sur Loire.
Waymark Code: WMWTCB
Location: Centre-Val-de-Loire, France
Date Posted: 10/11/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Dragontree
Views: 10

A simpler form of the pillory was the yoke or cangue in the Far East, a plank pierced with one to three holes, where the head and sometimes the two hands of the condemned were stuck so as to be able to walk.

But this use also made it possible to kill the latter by strangulation, keeping the cangue horizontally at a height higher than that of the condemned, whose feet were sometimes weighted with heavy stones.

Sources : The pillory

Une forme plus simple du pilori était le carcan ou cangue en Extrême-Orient, planche percée de un à trois trous où on coinçait la tête et parfois les deux mains du condamné de manière à pouvoir le promener.

Mais cette utilisation permettait également de tuer ce dernier par strangulation, en maintenant la cangue horizontalement à une hauteur supérieure à celle du condamné, dont les pieds étaient parfois lestés de lourdes pierres.

Sources : Le pilori

Type of Device: Pillory

What is the approximate age?: 01/01/1461

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