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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n More than 50 etchings from soldiers have been discovered on an English castle door in an \u201castonishing discovery,\u201d including graffiti of what could depict the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged.<\/p>\n The door was only recently discovered in Dover Castle, in southeast England, charity English Heritage said in a press statement Wednesday. It has now been \u201cpainstakingly conserved\u201d to go on display in July, the charity added.<\/p>\n The graffiti on the door is thought to have been created by soldiers living inside the castle between 1789 and 1855.<\/p>\n In the 1790s, the castle was renovated due to the threat of an invasion from Napoleon in France, being transformed from an \u201caging medieval castle\u201d to a \u201cmodern military garrison,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n Thousands of soldiers were brought into the castle\u2019s walls. Six to 12 men would guard St. John\u2019s Tower – where the door was found – in the castle\u2019s great outer ditch at one time.<\/p>\n English Heritage suggests that, with hours to kill and \u201cquestionable artistic talents,\u201d the soldiers may have whittled into the door to simultaneously whittle away the time. They likely created the unconventional artwork using knives or possibly bayonets.<\/p>\n There are at least nine illustrations on the door of people being hanged, the statement said, with one such etching showing the hanging of a man wearing a military uniform and a bicorne hat, thought to perhaps be Napoleon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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