The Pillory

 The pillory was a wooden frame on a pole with holes through which a person’s head and hands were placed. The frame was then locked. Some people talk about throwing rotten vegetables at the prisoner. In fact, it's unlikely you would throw rotten veg. You could feed that to pigs. You wouldn't waste rotten veg by throwing it a prisoner in the pillory. Of course, you could throw cow dung or horse dung. There was plenty of that around in those days.

On 24 June 1830, Peter James Bossy became the last man in Britain to stand in the pillory. (The pillory was a wooden frame on a pole with holes through which a person's head and hands were placed. It was abolished in 1837).