A FAMOUS Bromsgrove statue needs to be repaired just a few weeks after being positioned in a new location.

The Dryad and Boar statue was erected in 1983 and features a small curly haired boy wearing only a loin cloth restraining a boar, who stands behind him, with his left hand.

The popular statue was made by the late Terry Simons of Bromsgrove Guild Concrete Products, who donated it to mark the pedestrianisation of High Street.

For decades the statue stood outside Bromsgrove’s main post office.

In August, the Dryad and Boar statue returned to the new look High Street in a new position at the street's junction with Church Street.

But just a few weeks at the new position the raised right arm of the statue, which brandishes a wooden spear, came off.

It is unclear how the statue came to be damaged.

A member of the public handed the arm into the landlord of the nearby Red Lion pub, Jason Greenwood, who put it into the pub's safe over the weekend of September 13 and 14, before handing it to the council's environmental services officer.

A spokesman from Bromsgrove District Council said it was now being looked into how much it would cost to repair the statue.