Finney's post

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Finney's Post is part of an ornate mediaeval oak post, which once stood at the corner of the Market Place and High Street, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England.

Legend has it that this post caused an apparently dead woman to be brought back to life when her coffin carelessly crashed into the post.

The post was formerly housed in the Burton town museum which closed around 1980. From then until 2007 it was on display at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in the town in a glass case.

In July 2007 the post was controversially given away to the Victoria and Albert Museum by the Conservative controlled East Staffordshire Borough Council causing a great furore in the town.