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A fortress, a prison, a palace; once even the Royal Mint, and still housing the crown jewels. The iconic fortress on the Thames River, the Tower of London, is the subject of a new investigation with the help of cutting-edge technology. The graffiti and texts etched by some of the prisoners who’d committed the most heinous of crimes, such as high treason, as they bided their time, awaiting their fate(s).
Famed Inmates, Intelligible Cries for Help
Dr Jamie Ingram, who is heading the project to study graffiti in the Tower of London, told the Observer:
“There were supposed to be 79 examples of graffiti there, according to the historic survey. By the end of the survey that I conducted, there are 354. Very fine viewing of the surface of the walls has allowed us to identify what else is there … acknowledging that every mark is important, rather than just those that have been left by the famous prisoners.”
Incidentally, the project began with studying the Salt Tower on the south-eastern corner, which is part of the curtain wall Henry III put up in the 1230s. One of the prisoners was the infamous Hew Draper, a Bristol innkeeper who was accused of practicing sorcery, imprisoned in 1561. It is claimed that he carved an astrological sphere with zodiac signs, even after destroying all his magic books.
