Tour Scotland Video Jougs Abernethy Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Jougs at the entrance to the Parish graveyard on ancestry visit to Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland. The jougs was an instrument of punishment formerly used in Scotland. It was an iron collar fastened by a short chain to a wall, often of the parish church, or to a tree or to a mercat cross. The collar was placed round the offender's neck and fastened by a padlock. Time spent in the jougs was intended to shame an offender publicly. Jougs were used for ecclesiastical as well as civil offences. Examples could still be seen in Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century. It may have lent its name to the modern "jug", slang for prison.

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