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| Priapus Stone, Great Urswick | ||
| Priapus Stone | ||
| locality:- | Great Urswick | |
| civil parish:- | Urswick (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone | |
| coordinates:- | SD26767415 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2674 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
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 BVQ83.jpg (taken 11.11.2011) |
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| hearsay:- |
Limestone boulder, now in a wall not far from the church. |
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| William Fleming stated in his diary, 1801, the stone:- |
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| "the inhabitants of Urswick were accustomed to dress as a figure of Priapus on Midsummer
Day, besmearing it with sheep salve, tar, or butter, and covering it with rags of
various dyes, the head ornamented with flowers" |
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| ... a potent fertility symbol. |
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