Stone on the green, Dacre village

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Stone on the green, Dacre village

Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 29 Oct 2006

Dacre has a tiny village green, and on it is this stone, fitted with ironwork. The caption of a photograph in the Cumbria magazine describes it as a gate stoop, but it looks to me like a very uncomfortable version of the stocks, with three curves in the iron bar to hold someone's wrists and/or ankles.

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