History Challenge & Journal

[richard]

Neck chastity belt Swing your head and it boxed his ears

[STEVE G]

Is it part of a pillory or stocks or something of that nature for punishing thiefs?
My old village in Notts still has an old whipping post in the main street.

[Siani]

Is it part of a pillory or stocks or something of that nature for punishing thiefs?
My old village in Notts still has an old whipping post in the main street.

No not that Steve G...not punishment, stocks etc. More anti theft... think of that

[Siani]

Neck chastity belt Swing your head and it boxed his ears

Incorrect Richard! Although I am sure a lot of people might agree with you

[Frank Hovis]

Oddly enough I was thinking chastity belt as well, but for sheep - to stop them mounting the ewes.

But I'll go for... A lock to go round the neck of cattle or sheep to prevent them being rustled - sometime in the 1600's ?

[Siani]

Oddly enough I was thinking chastity belt as well, but for sheep - to stop them mounting the ewes.

But I'll go for... A lock to go round the neck of cattle or sheep to prevent them being rustled - sometime in the 1600's ?

Not cattle or sheep FH...later than 1600..add on a bit.
OK another clue
Origin: Scotland The Scots were up to no good during this time...think anti theft

[Frank Hovis]

The Scots were up to no good during this time

So it is a sheeps chastity belt, but not to protect them from the ram !

Is it Deacon Brodies anti-hanging device, he was both a carpenter and thief - so about 1790 ?

[migrant]

The first steering wheel lock ( oh, maybe not that much ahead of 1600)

[Siani]

The Scots were up to no good during this time

So it is a sheeps chastity belt, but not to protect them from the ram !

Is it Deacon Brodies anti-hanging device, he was both a carpenter and thief - so about 1790 ?

Nope FH..good try. Try to think of anti theft...it is to prevent someone stealing something, which they apartly did around this time. Later than 1790..but I will give you that...1820 is the date..you are close
Also the object is in the National Museum of Scotland

The first steering wheel lock ( oh, maybe not that much ahead of 1600)

No Migrant, not close...not something to stop a wheel, nowhere near that, sorry

[Frank Hovis]

Is it something to do with taxation of whisky?
Some sort of excise lock that goes round the neck of a whisky still?
Johnnie Walker adverts say "born 1820 and still going strong "

[Siani]

Is it something to do with taxation of whisky?
Some sort of excise lock that goes round the neck of a whisky still?
Johnnie Walker adverts say "born 1820 and still going strong "

FH..you are really trying...more to do with a person

[redzonerocker]

Is it an early dog collar/lock??

[STEVE G]

It's not something to do with body snatching is it, some sort of crook-lock for cadavers?

[sandman67]

Steve pipped me to the post with the anti-Resurection Men suggestion, although if it is its not something Ive seen before and the Resurection Men is something I read quite a bit about. I do know they were very active in Edinburgh around the early 1800s but the stuff Ive read about was mainly heavy stone blocks, cast iron bolt lid coffins and grilles over the graves.

The Beavers (cattle smugglers) were still active at that time swiping cattle from border area farms and shifting them back and forward across the border to avoid tax payments on head of cattle. It could be a cattle shank to mark taxed cattle.

Im stumped.

[Siani]

Is it an early dog collar/lock??

No sorry wrong ...good try