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17th c. gallows yields bone pits, revenant and suicide burials – The History Blog
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/71149

"From historical sources we know there was a gallows at the site from 1662 that was used for executions until 1809. The executed were often buried at the gallows hill because nobody wanted to bother hefting the criminal dead somewhere else for burial."

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