This stuff makes me drool. I remember being in the Norwich Cathedral a couple of years ago, and getting a tour of the graffiti. Some of it was just regular lam

This stuff makes me drool. I remember being in the Norwich Cathedral a couple of years ago, and getting a tour of the graffiti. Some of it was just regular lampooning of authority figures, young guys letting off steam, that sort of thing, but some of it was kind of nuts. Apparently this pattern known as the "daisywheel"[1] shows up all over the place, and no one knows exactly what it means. While we were there, the person showing us around flipped up one of the seats to show us the "green man" who'd been carved in lavish detail on the underside of the seat. As we looked at it, one of the cathedral workers came chugging down the aisle, flipped the seat back down, and continued on, all the while grumbling bitterly but incoherently. Apparently they're not too keen on the green man... [1] http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/blog/medieval-graffiti-at-norwich-cathedral http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/blog/medieval-graffiti-at..., http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274401/Archaeologists-fascinating-quest-decipher-medieval-graffiti-scrawled-cathedral-walls.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274401/Archaeologis...