The Times Online is reporting that a solution to the mysterious monument at Shugborough Hall may be revealed this week. In a three-part article (all available free) examining the entries in a recent competition – launched to try and solve the centuries old enigma – it is reported that the code-breaking organisation Bletchley Park is cautiously supporting an entry which claims the…
…inscription points to the hiding place of a stone tablet handed down from the Old Testament prophet Jacob, which was a talisman for a secret society known as the Priory of Sion.
On the other hand, the Sunday Herald claims the top-running entry is one that refers to Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobites and Freemasonry. Before you get too excited about finding the answer though, note that the Times Online article says the competition is “unlikely to throw up a definitive winner or to end the dispute over the inscription’s meaning”
