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

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on February 6, 2016 at 9:27:22 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 three areas on the northern end of Roanoke Island, NC: the Elizabethan Gardensthe Waterside Theatre or 10999 Pear Pad Rd. Two of the possibilities are located within the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and are run by private, nonprofit groups, rather than the National Park Service. The other site is thought to be public land as it is close to the beach however this still needs to be verified. 
  • 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 flower beds 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.  There is also no chance that the casque is buried in any of the undisturbed and archaeologically-significant areas of the historic site, so please do not dig there either.  The casque will only be buried in a place where there has already been a great deal of digging and where further digging will not create a problem. 

 

 

 

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.

  • A3-E8 - The arch is nearly identical to the one at the entrance of the Elizabethan gardens. 
  • E5 -  Some people have suggested that the faceplate of the helmet resembles the face of a horse and may be a hint toward the town of Nags Head, directly across the water from Roanoke Island.
  • 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 the blade of a halberd on display in the Visitor Center at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
  • H2 - Key.
  • H5 - The jewel is a garnet, the birth stone for January.
  • 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.
  • I10 - The pocket watch hanging from the chain shows a time of 1:00, indicating the month of January.
  • J3 - The flower is a white carnation, the birth flower for January. It is also similar to the flowering dogwood, the north Carolina flower
  • J8 - This bell is very similar to a Japanese temple bell on display in the Back Bay Fens of Boston.
  • K1-2 - there's the number 54. 
  • K5 - The cylindrical pedestal under the suit of armor resembles the pedestal under the statue of Virginia Dare at the Elizabethan Gardens.
  • L2 - There appears to be a Christian cross carved into the stonework, similar to the cross in the lion's mane in Image 2.  If the symbol is connected to the play The Lost Colony, performed at the Waterside Theatre, this might be a reference to the cross used in the baptism scenes.  Alternatively, it might refer to the mast and yardarms that move behind the stage as props to represent ships coming and going.
  • M8 & M9 - The spoon in the lower right corner represents Pear Pad Road, which runs to the northwest corner of the Fort Raleigh National Historic site.  The sphere on the spoon represents a traffic circle, while the object hanging from the spoon is the "pad" (or flattened stem) of a prickly pear cactus (see below).
  • O7-P9 - There is the number 56 

 

Interpretation 1: Fort Raleigh National Historic site

 

Notes:

  • This may be a representation of the Red Cross Knight, a character is The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
  • The pose of the armor in this picture may be related in some way to a scene in The Lost Colony when a Native American sits on top of a pole with his arms outstretched:
    IMG_6178    (Photo by Snassek on Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.)
  • 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.
  • 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 creature could represent indians it was also recently "caught on tape", But they look very similar. Also this photo was taken in North Carolina near Roanoke.
  • These words appear on the Fort Raleigh historical marker:

                     “On this site, in July – August, 1585 (O.S.), colonists, sent out from England by Sir Walter Raleigh, built a fort, called by them “The New Fort in Virginia These colonists were the first settlers of the English race in                       America. They returned to England in July, 1586, with Sir Francis Drake. Near this place was born, on the 18th of August, 1587, Virginia Dare, the first child of English Parents born in America – daughter of                       Ananias Dare and Eleanor White, his wife, members of another band of colonists sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587. On Sunday, August 20, 1587, Virginia Dare was baptised. Manteo, the friendly Chief of                       the Hatteras Indians had been baptised on the Sunday preceding. These baptisms are the first known celebrations of a Christian Sacrament in the territory of the thirteen original United States.” This ties up                       with several aspects of the puzzle. The introductory story is about Fairy “colonists” who set out for America from England.

            

  • This bell is on the lighthouse in Roanoke. It looks similar to the bells in Image 3. 

           

 

 

Image Matches

 

 

The crack in the wall to the right of the window is in the rough shape of Roanoke Island.  This is why readers are told in Verse 11 to go to "the land near the window."



The spoon with a marble in it is a representation of a spoon-shaped service road that appears below a traffic circle in maps of the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.  The service road is named "Pear Pad Road" and the object hanging from the handle of the spoon is the pad (or flattened stem) of a prickly pear cactus.
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.)
   
The Maltese cross was supposed be drawn by the lost Roanoke colonists, should they have to leave because of danger. It was never drawn, and on the right part of the mouth piece/guard there is a design that could fit the cross there. (Perhaps since it wasn't drawn, the cross isn't fully there?)

There’s a statue of Virginia Dare in the Elizabethan Gardens with a pedestal resembling the one in the Image 3. Its not an exact match but it is close.

The pillar at the bottom of Image 3 highly resembles the one in the picture that stood at the old entrance to Fort Raleigh. As with the previous match, the match is not exact but it is close.  

 

Interpretation 2: 10999 Pear Pad Rd

FYI: This interpretation make more sense if you read my interpretation on Verse 11.

 

Image Matches

 

The crack in the wall to the right of the window is in the rough shape of Roanoke Island.  This is why readers are told in Verse 11 to go to "the land near the window."



The spoon with a marble in it is a representation of a spoon-shaped service road that appears below a traffic circle in maps of the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.  The service road is named "Pear Pad Road" and the object hanging from the handle of the spoon is the pad (or flattened stem) of a prickly pear cactus. 
The hooks in the centre of the chest plate are nearly identical to the hooks at the end of Pear Pad Road.
 

 

The Proposed Search point

 

More can be found on this theory/interpretation on the verse 11 page.
 

 

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...

  • If the bells are a reference to Albert Quentin Bell, 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 close-up picture of the halberd on display in the Visitor Center at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site?
  • What are the meanings of the bubbles and the statue?

 

 

 

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