{"id":16351,"date":"2016-05-31T22:35:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2016-05-31T22:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T21:35:17","slug":"medieval-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16351","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16053105.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Graffiti\" \/><br \/>\nThere were a lot of walks put on by the Friends of Abingdon yesterday. They included the Ock Valley Walk,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16053106.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Graffiti\" \/><br \/>\nand boundary walk. It is always a surprise to go on any of these walks to find how many new things you can discover about Abingdon when shown by an expert.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16053102.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Graffiti\" \/><br \/>\nI went on the Lost Abbey Walk which ended at the Old Abbey Buildings &#8211; now maintained by the Friends of Abingdon. Somebody has recently discovered some medieval grafitti on a chimney breast,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16053103.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Graffiti\" \/><br \/>\nIt shows what looks like a portcullis, and they think it is the symbol of a family who stayed there in the 15th Century.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16053107.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Graffiti\" \/><br \/>\nThe same chimney breast has also more recent grafitti such as this name from 1931. If anybody knows of other medieval graffiti in Abingdon I would be interested to know. It could make an interesting tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of walks put on by the Friends of Abingdon yesterday. They included the Ock Valley Walk, and boundary walk. It is always a surprise to go on any of these walks to find how many new things you can discover about Abingdon when shown by an expert. I went on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}