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Title: The Stocks

Place: Cerne Abbas

About: These Stocks from a bygone era are located outside St. Mary's Church in Cerne Abbas. Stocks were used in the medieval period to punish people by public humiliation. The person in the stocks was often assaulted and mocked or had all manner of objects thrown at them

Photograph Added: 9th March 2011