Ely Cathedral bullet scars - can you help?

The west wall of Ely Cathedral. Image: Ely Cathedral Guides' Research Group.

Can anyone please help?

Ely Cathedral Guides' Research Group has got in touch about some pockmarks on the external west wall of the cathedral's Lady Chapel, possibly caused by ECW musket fire ...

Guest blog: New techniques for understanding 17th century siege warfare (Amanda Wynne)

Reconstructing the maximum possible diameter of a spherical bullet using the bowl of an impact scar from St Luke’s church, Holmes Chapel (Image: Dr Paul Bills, University of Huddersfield).

Damage left by the English Civil War is still evident on many castle walls, church doors and elsewhere around the UK. The study of cannon and musket ball impacts has helped archaeologists and historians piece together a narrative of those violent events, but many explanations rely on conjecture or are coloured by local myth.

New archaeological techniques, however, are beginning to provide more scientific explanations of how 17^th century warfare was fought. In this guest post Amanda Wynne explains how laser scanning technology is helping us to more accurately interpret English Civil War sieges - and the benefits the results may have for other fields ...