BBC Nottingham - Robin Hood

Southwell Minster

Blacke Dickon: "One of the pagan symbols carved into the Minster is of the green man - an early interpretation of what Robin Hood might have looked like in his early form."

Southwell Minster was built around 1100. Any serf or peasant coming out of Sherwood Forest from their wattle and daub hut to see this grandeur will have been awestruck.

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