Dr Antonia Thomas, a lecturer and researcher at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, updated the Orkney Archaeology Society (OAS) on the St Magnus Cathedral Graffiti Project last month, and the video is now available.
Launched in January 2019, the community project is a collaboration between the UHI Archaeology Institute and the OAS and is investigating, recording and analysing the markings in and around the 12th century cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney.
St Magnus Cathedral contains one of the most significant graffiti assemblages in Scotland, including masons’ marks, enigmatic symbolic designs, such as hexafoils, and a wide range of both pencilled and inscribed “name-and-date” graffiti.
