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The Secret (a treasure hunt) / Image 03
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Image 03

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on December 1, 2014 at 12:01:19 pm
 

General notes on Image 3

  • This is the image for January and the immigration reference is to England.
  • This image is thought to be linked to Verse 11 and to a hunt in one of two areas on the northern end of Roanoke Island, NC: the Elizabethan Gardens or the Waterside Theatre.  Both possibilities are located within the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site but are run by private, nonprofit groups, rather than the National Park Service.  Please note: The guidelines for The Secret specifically rule out any possibility that a casque could be buried in "any public or private flower bed."  That would rule out all of the maintained areas at the Elizabethan Gardens, so please do not do any digging there.  We don't want to create problems for the gardeners who maintain that beautiful space. 

 

 

 

Image 3

 

Specific Observations

  Please record your notes about this image in the list below.  Use the letter/number grid to identify the point on the image that you're describing.  To keep things organized, 1) please start each observation with a letter/number combo (in bold), and 2) add new observations in the right place on the list to keep everything alphabetized.

  • G1 - The thumb and forefinger of the knight's right hand appear to be spread apart to measure something.  The fact that this hand extends outside the margin of the picture might suggest that we are supposed to apply that measurement to some other image.
  • G2 - The strange hook hanging from the knight's right wrist could be a scythe or it could represent Cape Cod. It could also be a match for a halberd on display in the Visitor Center at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
  • H2 - Key.
  • H5 - The jewel is a garnet.
  • H7 - This bell is very similar to the one on display outside the Paul Revere House in Boston.
  • H8 - The crack in the wall may be in the shape of Roanoke Island (see below).
  • H9 - Key.
  • J3 - The flower is a white carnation.
  • J8 - This bell is very similar to a Japanese temple bell on display in the Back Bay Fens of Boston.
  • L2 - There appears to be a Christian cross carved into the stonework, similar to the cross in the lion's mane in Image 2.
  • M8 - There appears to be a pea on the spoon, leading some to suggest that this might be a peaspoon.
  • M9 - The object hanging from the spoon has not yet been identified, but it may be a tea bag.  Alternatively, it could be the "pad" (or flattened stem) of a prickly pear cactus.  The road that runs to the northwest corner of the Fort Raleigh National Historic site is Pear Pad Road.

 

 

Other Notes:

  • This image has many geometrical connections to Image 11.  The two may be connected in some way.
  • This is the only image where the contents extend outside the margin.
  • This may be a representation of the Red Cross Knight, a character is The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
  • The armor shown here may be related in some way to the armor on display in the visitors center at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.  The armor and the crossed halberds can be seen in the background of this picture:
    Fort Raleigh National Historic Site    (Photo by Jasperdo on Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.)
  • The three bells hanging from the armor appear to be a reference to Albert Quentin Bell who designed the Waterside Theatre at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.  The Waterside Theatre is where The Lost Colony is performed during the summer months.  The theatre is still described as "The House that Skipper Bell Built" and there has been a memorial plaque with Albert Bell's name at the back of the theatre since 1967.

 

 

Image Matches

 

One crack in the wall appears to outline the shape of Roanoke Island.  

 

This is apparently why readers are told in Verse 11 to go to "the land near the window."

On the knight's left breastplate there is a very small four-leaf clover.  (Note that there is also a tiny four-leaf clover in Image 11.)
   
     

 

 

Latitude / Longitude Hints

 

There appears to be a "36" formed by the cracks in the wall at the lower right corner of the window.
 
There appears to be a "75" formed by the patterns of the cracks in the lower right corner.
 
The northern half of Roanoke Island stretches from approximately 35.89°N, 75.64°W to 35.94°N, 75.73°W.  The rounding doesn't really make sense, but the coordinates are very close to the numbers in the picture.

 

 

 

Questions, questions, questions...

  • What is the symbolism of the keys?
  • If the knight is measuring something with his right hand, does that distance match up to anything else?
  • Does anyone have a picture of the halberd on display in the Visitor Center at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site?

 

 

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