Graffiti Hunt Finds 600 Marks In Orkney's St Magnus Cathedral

[Nemo]

This'll do here.

Graffiti hunt finds 600 marks in Orkney's St Magnus Cathedral.

A survey of St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall has recorded 600 separate graffiti marks.

They include symbols left by masons, a complex medieval charm, pencil marks made by wartime service personnel, and a hidden Blue Peter sticker.
Local tour guide Melba Leonard even discovered a mysterious palm-sized star.
The volunteer graffiti hunter told BBC Radio Orkney she had been excited to take part in the survey.

She had been hoping to find a cross made by the Vikings.
"When they went on pilgrimage, they would leave a vertical mark. If they came back, they would add the horizontal mark," she said.
"That's what I was looking for."
Instead, she found a star which has been described as a mystery by archaeologists.
She said it was "exciting" that the marks had been highlighted in a new guide to the cathedral, which dates back almost 900 years.

(C) BBC. '22

 

[catseye]

This'll do here.

Graffiti hunt finds 600 marks in Orkney's St Magnus Cathedral.

(C) BBC. '22

I'm off up there on Sunday. I'll go and have a look! (Although sandstone is so incredibly soft that you can practically 'leave graffitti' by leaning up against it too hard...)

 

[James_H]

Fantastic cathedral, great for skull-and-crossboneses too.

 

[Frideswide]

This is excellent!