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The Stone Gate at the southern end of Old London Bridge displayed the severed heads of executed traitors on iron-tipped pikes from approximately 1305 to 1660. William Wallace's head went up first. By the 1660 closure the gate had displayed the heads of several hundred traitors, regicides, and political enemies of the Crown.
Read the story →From 1305 to 1660 — three and a half centuries — the southern gatehouse of [Old London Bridge](/articles/old-london-bridge) carried the displayed heads of traitors executed by the English crown. The first head was William Wallace's; the last was probably Oliver Cromwell's. The boiled heads were dipped in tar before mounting and were managed by an officer of the City of London known as the Keeper of the Heads.
Read the story →The Tyburn gallows at the western edge of medieval London were the main public execution site for the English crown from 1196 to 1783. About sixty thousand people died there. The site is now a traffic junction at Marble Arch, with a plaque almost nobody reads.
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