Abson (Somerset)

A rare crouching male figure (who might be called Séamus-an-bhuid or Lusty Man) - not dissimilar to the one at Whittlesford.

compare with the male figure at Whittlesford


This looks very likely copied from a similar figure on the frieze of the church of Saint-Savinien,
one of three Romanesque churches at Melle (Deux-Sèvres)...

photo by Tina Negus


... and two anal exhibitionist crawlers at Ryhall (Rutland)...


photographed by Tina Negus


...and with...

a mediæval (post-Romanesque) ithyphallic gargoyle >

and a completely different kind of male figure in the Outer Hebrides >