 The stone base was rediscovered and preserved in about 1840, and a non-working replica was erected on the site in 1974.The names of 52 people known to have been beheaded by the device are listed on a nearby plaque.What became known as the Halifax Gibbet Law gave the Lord of the Manor of Wakefield, of which the town of Halifax was a part, the power to try and execute any felon for the theft of goods to the value of 13½d or more