January Miscellany

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Items of Interest

Graffiti in Rochester Cathedral

From Twitter

Found this fascinating and very moving. https://t.co/zuCneejBsJ

— Dig For Archaeology (@ForArchaeology) January 6, 2022

Remarkable c.5,000 year old megalithic art inside the passage tomb of Fourknocks, County Meath. pic.twitter.com/jzfWRhXEJF

— Neil Jackman (@JackmanNeil) January 8, 2022

On a churchcrawl with @badger_beard . Excellent graffiti at Setchworth, Cambridgeshire pic.twitter.com/HZnaHHTofG

— John Vigar (@johnevigar) January 11, 2022

Spent part of the week hunting down records of Tudor ships with silly names, and came to realise just how much ship graffiti I've recorded over the years.
So a brief chronology of crap, & not so crap, ship graffiti through the ages. pic.twitter.com/vVzQj8eJxS

— Medieval Graffiti (@MedievalG) January 14, 2022

Spotted some lovely graffiti I hadn't noticed before in @riponcathedral, visible this evening in the lovely sunset pic.twitter.com/qdgFOxRwCn

— Dr Maddy Pelling (@MaddyPelling) January 12, 2022

Roman paving with large phallic graffito carving, displayed in-situ under Zadar Archaeological Museum, Croatia #phallusthursday pic.twitter.com/pdfVvQAvc8

— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) January 13, 2022

Found this engraved into the side of a church organ yesterday alongside names dating back to the 1940s.

“Beloved – I love you. I would fill pages with that one simple sentence. Oh God, I love you. I love you. I love you.” pic.twitter.com/cH8GKunvC6

— Sophie Flynn (@sophielflynn) January 23, 2022