Gallows Site • East Walton

 

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Between the settlements of East Walton and Gayton Thorpe, just off a track-way running between the two, there is a site marked as 'Gallows Hill' on older OS maps. 

An old pamphlet states that the Prior of West Acre and the Abbot of West Dereham had what was called the 'Eight of Gallows' in East Walton, but doesn't go on to describe what this actually is! I presume it was some right to hold trials or executions, but I don't honestly know. I can't find any newspaper articles suggesting 'recent' executions, nor does a gallows appear on Faden's Map of Norfolk, which was produced in 1797, so I am going to assume this is probably a medieval era location. 

Human bones have been discovered at the site, though I am presuming this was in antiquity and they are no longer around to be dated. 

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