ravenstone

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A place of execution; gallows

[...] — The raven sits / On the raven-stone, And his black wing flits / O'er the milk-white bone; [...]

Three years later, in 1811, King Friedrich of Wurttemberg ordered the dismantling of permanent gallows and ravenstones and the ending of the practice of exposing malefactors' corpses.

A gravestone

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A village and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8450).

A village in Ravenstone with Snibston parish, North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4013).

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[...] — The raven sits / On the raven-stone, And his black wing flits / O'er the milk-white bone; [...]

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Three years later, in 1811, King Friedrich of Wurttemberg ordered the dismantling of permanent gallows and ravenstones and the ending of the practice of exposing malefactors' corpses.

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In 1811, for instance, King Friedrich of Württemberg ordered that the permanent gallows and ravenstones be dismantled and that the exposure of dead criminal bodies should be abandoned.

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