Carlisle Castle restores 15th-century carvings thought to be by prison guards
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from on (#5VK1B)
Carvings can be seen more clearly thanks to painstaking removal of sediment and water damage
There are carvings of dolphins, horses, boar, salmon, mermaids, a magnificently endowed leopard, George and the dragon, and a fox preaching to some chickens - a 500-year-old warning not to trust people in authority.
The carvings, about 300 of them, at Carlisle Castle are the subject of a restoration project to save them from the elements and allow them to be seen more clearly than they have been for generations.
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