This, the sixth volume in the series 'Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology', assembles a series of innovative studies in the historical archaeology of graffiti. Contents: 1) Wild Signs: An Introduction (Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal); 2) Basque Aspen Carvings: The Biggest Little Secret of Western USA (Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe); 3) Elbow Grease and Time to Spare: The Place of Tree Carving (Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal); 4) Magic Markers: The Evocative Potential of Carvings on Stanton Moor Edge, Derbyshire, UK (Stella McGuire); 5) Traces of Presence and Pleading: Approaches to the Study of Graffiti at Tewkesbury Abbey (Kirsty Owen); 6) Signs of the Times: Nineteenth - Twentieth Century Graffiti in the Farms of the Yorkshire Wolds (Katherine Giles and Melanie Giles); 7. 'What the Frak is F**k?' A Thematic Reading of the Graffiti of Bristol (Travis G. Parno); 8) 'Theo Loves Doris': Wild-Signs in Landscape and Heritage Context (John Schofield); 9) Painting The River's Margins (Tiago Matos Silva); 10) In London You're Never More Than 10 Feet from a Rat (Stencil): The Rat and Urban Folklore (Paul Cowdell); 11) Afterword (Victor Buchli).