jougs

Time spent in the jougs was intended to shame an offender publicly.

Sorn church jougs were stolen in the 1930s, but were located and returned.

The Kilmaurs jougs themselves were last used in 1820 when a housebreaker was held in them.

Note the jougs collar and louping on stone by the entrance to the churchyard.

Cuthbertson refers to the jougs as symbols of the session's power against gossips and evil-doers.

It can still be seen to be bearing metal bands around its trunk to which jougs were once attached for the restraint and humiliation of petty criminals.

As well as housing accused criminals awaiting trial, and debtors, tolbooths were also places of public punishment, equipped with a whipping post, stocks or jougs.

Punishments included the imposition of the cucking stool, pillory, jougs, a shrew's fiddle, or a scold's bridle.

The old Tolbooth museum in Sanquhar in the Nith valley has jougs attached to the wall just outside the entrance to the old jail.

The jougs on the Isle of Cumbrae survive attached to a gatepost at the entrance to the Millport Old Cemetery entrance.

The tolbooth and weigh-house, part of the Fife Folk Museum in Ceres, Fife has jougs on the wall next to the weigh-house door.

Sir Walter Scott rescued the "jougs" from Threave Castle in the Borders and attached them to the castellated gateway he built at Abbotsford House.

The former Parish Council chambers in Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, Scotland, called the "jougs", has a set of jougs still attached to the front wall.

The Parish council chambers in Kilmaurs, the 'juggs' or 'jougs', has a fine example of a stepped Mercat Cross in an enclosure behind it, the cross is surmounted by a large sandstone ball and dated 1830.

A local tradition was that the iron 'jougs' on it were for imprisoning witches, although it may be that these were linked to the Barony Court functions of the old Corsehill Barony, the records of which still survive and make reference to the stocks.