{"id":619,"date":"2014-02-19T02:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T02:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeovision.eu\/?p=619"},"modified":"2015-09-18T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T11:06:42","slug":"graffiti-mingary-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archaeovision.eu\/en\/news\/graffiti-mingary-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Graffiti’ in Mingary Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent news article\u00a0published\u00a0on the BBC’s new page\u00a0entitled “‘Graffiti’ in Mingary Castle thought to be 700 years old<\/a>”\u00a0discusses newly found graffiti markings found by architectural consultant Tom Addyman and his team on\u00a0plastered walls of the chapel. The\u00a0archaeologists involved in the team date the markings to between 1265 and 1295 and more can be found on\u00a0Jon Haylett’s (local\u00a0historian), \u00a0The Mingary Castle blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The discovery of these graffiti markings can be seen as an important part of the work being carried out by the\u00a0The Mingary Castle Preservation and Restoration Trust but it leads onto a belief of how much RTI<\/a>,\u00a0shown through our\u00a0medieval cross-base<\/a>\u00a0example, could play a part within understanding these markings more. The below image, taken from the\u00a0Mingary Castle blog, highlights how hard it is to view these markings. The understanding, and therefore the dating, of these markings lie in the interpretation of what the graffiti represents. The image clearly shows that this\u00a0interpretation\u00a0is based on\u00a0experienced\u00a0knowledge\u00a0of the\u00a0local\u00a0site, but with the\u00a0identification\u00a0of this being a simple ship design, it could leave many questioning how this conclusion was drawn. To the trained eye, those able to see the subtle lines, it is clearly a hull of a ship with a simple sail, but to those who work outside the field of graffiti, it could simply represent a\u00a0series\u00a0of lines from which no conclusions could be based.<\/p>\n

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