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 LOUPING-ON-STANE & JOUGS COLLAR Louping-on-Stane & Jougs
THE LOUPING-ON-STANE
  The Louping-on-Stane adjoins the main entrance gate to the Church and consists of a short flight of four rough stone steps leading onto a small square stone platform. Dating from the 17th century, this simple stone structure was used to make mounting and dismounting from horses easier when parishioners arrived to attend services. Louping being the Scots for jumping.
THE JOUGS COLLAR
 The `Jougs' (from jugum a yoke) consist of an iron collar in two halves fastened by a clasp, and are suspended by a chain which hangs on the wall adjoining the main entrance gates to the Church.
Between the 16th and early 19th Centuries, the Church Session in the parishes wielded considerable punitive powers in terms of moral offences. Parishioners found guilty of some breach of church discipline, such as drunkenness, immorality, Sabbath breaking or blasphemy, had to undergo the humiliation of appearing for a number of Sundays with their necks in the `Jougs' before proceeding into the church for public rebuke, at the stool of repentance.
Once a common feature of Scottish churches, the 'Jougs' at Duddingston are one of the few remaining examples in Scotland.
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