The original Halifax Gibbet was first used in 1286 and continued its fatal work until 1650.

With precision and boundless energy, a team of carpenters used medieval techniques to raise up — by hand — a three-ton oak truss Saturday in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, a replica of the wooden ...

One side of the device was used to tell the date of Easter Sunday. Christie's Images LTD. 2023 Billed as the “earliest dated English scientific instrument,” a 700-year-old medieval device used to tell ...