Silk Willoughby Church Ancient Graffiti - Retinex. Please help to ID the symbol!
Well, I've just embarked on research into stonemasons marks and graffiti in a Lincolnshire Knights Templar preceptory. This shot is of some old graffiti inside the porch of Saint Denis church in Silk Willoughby, Lincolnshire, UK which is only a couple of miles from it.
The 'flower' pattern (a 'rosette symbol') is said to be a symbol that wards off evil, well, we shall see... Interestingly this rosette is inside what i'm guessing is a 'sunwheel'...any ideas anyone?
OK I'm digging a little deeper and have found that this symbol (the rosette) is a emblem of the Knights of the Morningstar during the first crusade - so a possible Templar connection.
BUT there is also a similar symbol used by Freemasons which has a snake around the circumference eating itself...now I'm seeing a scale pattern here!