Mark Lyons
#1 Between Vevay and Montreux, Switzerland on its own island property, is a very nice castle named Castle de Chillon. The original section of the castle was built around 1150 and saw several additions during the next 3 or 4 hundred years.
I did not know about the famous resident in the basement dungeon until my visit almost a month ago.
Being chained by the neck for 6 years in a cold damp dungeon certainly was a living hell.
Being a collector of cuffs, I imagine that most if not all my pieces in the collection were used as a temporary instrument to restrain the prisoner, but holding this piece really made me shiver knowing how horrible this prisoner was treated.
A small piece of spring steel or spinning the lock into the wood for hours a day would have made life so much easier unless the beating he would have been subject to was a strong deterrent.
It is assumed that he did not have a chair or bench to sit on and had to learn to sleep standing up.
I have many more photos to share during the next few weeks. I had am amazing time on the trip and have many to thank for making this trip so enjoyable.
mark
O--O
I did not know about the famous resident in the basement dungeon until my visit almost a month ago.
Being chained by the neck for 6 years in a cold damp dungeon certainly was a living hell.
Being a collector of cuffs, I imagine that most if not all my pieces in the collection were used as a temporary instrument to restrain the prisoner, but holding this piece really made me shiver knowing how horrible this prisoner was treated.
A small piece of spring steel or spinning the lock into the wood for hours a day would have made life so much easier unless the beating he would have been subject to was a strong deterrent.
It is assumed that he did not have a chair or bench to sit on and had to learn to sleep standing up.
I have many more photos to share during the next few weeks. I had am amazing time on the trip and have many to thank for making this trip so enjoyable.
mark
O--O