| Summary: | South West Archaeology Ltd. undertook emergency recording work on the first floor plaster ceiling within Dartmouth Castle, prior to its replacement. While the ceiling was replaced in the 20th century, a series of scratch marks were replicated from an earlier ceiling, and partition marks are evident. All of the marks are very slight and the degree to which – in the absence of written confirmation –they accurately replicate historic plaster marks is difficult to quantify. The ceiling is modern and of little value in its own right, but the recreation of the marks, undertaken by 20th century conservators,
lends it some historic (associative) value as it preserves some part of the narrative history of individual workers within the building. |
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