Wicker Man’s leg-lopping mystery: BBC Online
A Galloway landmark left by a cult 1970s movie has been chopped down.
Wooden legs from a figure set alight in the final scenes of The Wicker Man had remained in their concrete bases at Burrowhead for some 30 years.
Investigations have started after the legs – standing about 5ft high – were sawn down and removed, leaving two stumps in the ground.
The site is now on a holiday village run by Stuart Fairclough, who said the landmark was a popular attraction.
“I got phone calls at the start of the week saying ‘do you realise that the stumps have gone’?” he said.
“It would seem to be at the latter end of last week and apart from that we are all in the dark.”
The mystery continues
Thanks Drew Mulholland!
