I remember seeing keeper's gibbets years ago with moles, rats, stoats, magpies etc all hung up on the fence. I came across this rather gruesome exhibit in Allendale. It is a mole catcher's gibbet, a rather specialised form of keeper's gibbet. The mole catcher uses it to prove to his employer that he is doing the work he is contracted for.
I couldn't get the whole length of the gibbet in one photo with the lens I had but I estimated there were over 200 mole carcasses displayed.
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