Wattled hurdle

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A wattled hurdle. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)

In the Jacobean era, a wattled hurdle was a frame or sledge made from woven twigs or branches.

Everard Digby, one of the plotters involved in the Gunpowder Plot, was found guilty of high treason and dragged on a wattled hurdle through the streets of London, to his place of execution. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)