1 About the year 1850, a number of skeletons were brought to light in a stone pit at the S end of the Burton Dassett ridge, on an elevation known ...
The possible site of a gibbet, a wooden post from which the body of a criminal would be hung after they had been executed. Gibbets were in use during the Medieval period. This particular gibbet may have been located on Gibbet Hill, to the north of Burton Dassett.