As part of a series of scientific investigations we are carrying out at the manor house, conservators have discovered an etching of a windmill, thought to have been inspired by the building of a nearby mill during Newton’s childhood.
The new drawings were revealed using Reflectance Transformation Imaging, or RTI, a technique that uses light to capture the shape and colour of a surface not visible to the naked eye. Using this technology, conservator Chris Pickup from Nottingham Trent University was able to survey the walls of the 400 year old manor in painstaking detail to discover this previously unseen wall etching.