This collar was mounted close to the door of North Berwick's Kirkports Parish Church and was preserved when that building was closed. Transgressors in the eyes of the Kirk Session were sentenced to a period confined by the neck, in full view of anyone entering the church. A similar set survives in situ at Spott Parish Church. These jougs are similar to the 'Juggs' that miners at Prestongrange described being used on colliers who disobeyed their master.

This is an iron collar or jougs. It consists of six pieces of wrought iron: a wall pin, two double looped links, another loop terminating in a boss connected to two hinged, semicircular pieces that form a neck-sized enclosure when closed.

Saint Andrews Parish Church in Kirkports, North Berwick was in use by 1659, but was dismantled in June 1884 when useful parts of the buildings and its fittings were sold by auction. The congregation was by that time worshipping in a new building constructed on a High Street site in 1882.