Click here for a news story about the St Magnus Cathedral Graffiti Project, which has seen the publication of a leaflet detailing some of the inscriptions found in the 12th century cathedral.
Launched in January 2019, the community project was a collaboration between the UHI Archaeology Institute and the Orkney Archaeology Society and investigated, recorded and analysed the markings in and around the cathedral.
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.
