Jougs

[1] The jougs was an iron collar fastened by a short chain to a wall, often of the parish church, or to a tree or mercat cross.

Sir Walter Scott rescued the jougs from Threave Castle in Kirkcudbrightshire and attached them to the castellated gateway he built at Abbotsford House.

[3] In Stewarton, East Ayrshire, the jougs were attached to the old bridge that crossed the burn and connected to the drive that ran up to Corsehill House.

It can still be seen bearing metal bands around its trunk to which jougs were once attached for the restraint and humiliation of petty criminals.

[8] Mr. Carse of the Shawhill Estate protected a fine old thorn tree that grew at the Hurlford Bridge end by attaching a pair of jougs to it, made by David Brown the local blacksmith.