The large and small gallows ponds were created as mining facilities: water was needed to operate the "water arts", which lifted the water out of the pits. And these ponds were the reservoirs for this water. The Great Gallows Pond was (1550!) The largest of its kind (even if it was smaller then ;-)).

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