1964: VIKING GRAFFITI in ORKNEY | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

Cathal O'Shannon reports on the Maeshowe burial mound in Orkney which is covered in Viking runes and (basically the graffiti of the age), much to the interest of archaeologists.

Don't expect too much profundity however, as the messages are fairly typical of the genre - Kilroy Woz 'Ere, claims of sexual conquest etc.

Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 24 April 1964.





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