wookey hole graffiti

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estelle

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Images and words have been drawn inside the caves.

Management at the caves are assessing the damage, which was discovered at 8 am today. Those responsible broke open a padlock where the public normally exit the caves.

A rope on nearby cliffs seem to indicate that those responsible abseiled into the valley at Wookey Hole.

Wookey Hole owner Daniel Medley says he is trying to find out whether Bristol?s Banksy is behind the attack on the caves, which was carried out in the dead of night.

http://www.heart.co.uk/somerset/news/local/wookey-hole-caves-graffiti-attack/
 
mikekushy

mikekushy

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I know a good deal of climbers and artist's from my area. I will do some investigating. That's so backwards it's unreal.
 
Duncan Price

Duncan Price

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Nice publicity stunt for the start of the summer tourist season.  :clap:

I refer M'lord to the Case of the Missing Dalek (2005), Dog vs. Elvis's Teddy Bear (2006), The Wookey Hole Witch Job (2009, 2010), ?60k Wizard Job (2011) &c. :coffee:


 
graham

graham

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Not a chance it was Banksy. None of them are his style.

I note that almost all seem to be in the concrete, not on the rock. I'm with Duncan on this one.
 
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Blakethwaite

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If nothing else its highly unlikely that any razor sharp, hip young street artist is going to ab into a cave entrance. Everybody knows that 85% of cavers are middle-aged ex-public schoolboys, generally with a resolutely middle-class name such as Robin.

That's barely appropriate for the urban ninja in question...
 
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martinr

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Duncan Price said:
Nice publicity stunt for the start of the summer tourist season.  :clap:

I refer M'lord to the Case of the Missing Dalek (2005), Dog vs. Elvis's Teddy Bear (2006), The Wookey Hole Witch Job (2009, 2010), ?60k Wizard Job (2011) &c. :coffee:
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http://www.heart.co.uk/somerset/news/local/wookey-hole-caves-graffiti-attack/ said:
Avon and Somerset Police have told Heart they were called on Monday morning to reports of a broken padlock.
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If it is a stunt just to bring in the tourists, they are risking a charge of wasting police time.  Penalty for this offence is imprisonment for not more than 6 months on summary conviction or a fine.
 
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Peter Burgess

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"First new cave art" for, oo let's see, eight years?

Chauvet-style red hand, and wild boar, created using genuine materials and original painting methods, for BBC2 art documentary in 2005.

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Viewed and appreciated by the public in Reigate - no farting mammoths.  ::)
 
Duncan Price

Duncan Price

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I saw the Wookey graffiti for myself yesterday when diving there.  Firstly, the padlock on the back gate which was "broken" is the original one though there is some damage to the wooden door surround beyond.  The spray paint on the walls of the exit tunnel (over the existing faux paleolithic animals drawn there) is a gaudy eyesore.  The stuff done on the rock face (in the blasted tunnel between 3 and 7) is "better" by comparison.  The posting on the Wookey Hole FaceBook page has generated a lot of outrage - if this is a publicity stunt by the show cave then it has backfired on them.  Either way, I hope they see sense and remove it.  Although daubed on the artificial bits of the cave, Wookey Hole is an SSSI after all.  It doesn't set a very good example of cave conservation.
 
Duncan Price

Duncan Price

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Update - I picked up a memory card while I was there - it was in the storage tunnel between Chamber 3 and the exit from 9.  Looks like it fell out of a camera, I had forgotten about it until this evening.  I found a photo on it which might help identify the perpetrator:

Wookey_Hole_Graffiti_1.jpg


The painting appears to be some sort of self-portrait.  I've handed the evidence to the appropriate authorities.
 
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