Fascinating. Is he dressed in leaves or furred? I realised I have seen a woodwose before but in Lincolnshire - however, as it was on the tomb of Katherine Willoughby, it was perhaps a reference to the fact she was duchess of Suffolk.
Hairy, I think! You do get them elsewhere, but they're particularly common in Norfolk and Suffolk, especially on font stems. They're also the heraldic device of the Wodehouse/Woodhouse family of Norfolk.
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