The Cursing Stone at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle


The granite ‘Cursing Stone’ can be found in an underground gallery linking Carlisle's award-winning Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery with the city's medieval castle. It bears the curse made by the Archbishop of Glasgow against the Reivers in 1525. “I curse their head and all the hairs of their I curse them going and I curse them riding; I curse them standing and I curse them ” The tirade runs to more than 1000 words.


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Location: Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, Cumbria
Photo credit: © LakesEye / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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