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A male figure referencing one of Whitby’s strangest legends – the Penny Hedge. The story goes that one autumn day in 1159, a group of noblemen were hunting nearby. Their hounds attacked a boar which took shelter in a hermitage, the hermit closing the door on the dogs. The enraged hunters attacked the hermit, leaving him for dead. On his deathbed he suggested that, instead of the death penalty for murder, they and their descendants should enact an annual penance – the construction of a woven 'hedge' from branches cut using only a knife 'of a penny price'. The hedge needed to withstand three tides: if it didn't, the lords would forfeit their lands. The planting of the Penny Hedge has continued every year at 9am on the eve of Ascension Day, 39 days after Easter.
Title
Penny Hedge
Date
2021
Medium
galvanised steel wire
Accession number
YO21_FJ_S104
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Coastal Revival Fund and Scarborough Borough Council
Work type
Statue
Owner
Scarborough Borough Council
Custodian
Scarborough Borough Council
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Signature/marks description
signed on the base of the figure: es 21
Church Street, Whitby
YO22 4AJ
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