{"id":137885,"date":"2025-09-15T01:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137885\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T01:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:43:12","slug":"anglesey-social-media-trend-leads-to-painting-on-sacred-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137885\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglesey: Social media trend leads to painting on sacred sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year could see the highest ever number of reported crimes of damage and vandalism at some of Wales&#8217; ancient sites, according to Cadw, which preserves and protects Welsh heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bryn Celli Ddu passage tomb on Anglesey, one of the best known Neolithic sites in Wales, dating back 5,000 years, has recently seen graffiti and damage to the internal chamber stones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 40 marks have been painted inside the passage and tomb, including fingerprints, handprints, diamond shapes and circles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sean Parry, a local tattooist, said people had been &#8220;fingerpainting on sacred sites&#8221; and sharing it on social media as &#8220;spiritual practice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have no evidence that these monuments were ever decorated like this, and even if they were, it is not a place to leave our marks on them in the modern day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Video edited by Erin Lister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year could see the highest ever number of reported crimes of damage and vandalism at some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-137885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}