The Armchair Treasure Hunt ClubSeptember Event 2004 -
Masquerade Silver Anniversary
The Armchair Treasure Hunt ClubOn Sunday 26 September 2004 Club members and non-members assembled in Ampthill, Bedfordshire - a few miles from Milton Keynes. This date was the autumnal equinox. The location and time are significant in the history of armchair hunting's seminal hunt, Kit Williams' Masquerade - published 25 years ago this month and the tresure buried in Ampthill Park - at a spot marked by the shadow cast by Catherine's Cross at noon on the summer equinox.
Shaun and Alison Whitehead devised a devious club event to commemorate Masquerade. Treasure Hunters spent the afternoon assembling a number of pieces of information from the clues provided but quite what to do with the info seemed to ellude everone for a while. Nick Perry was roaming with his camera towards the end, dressed, rather inapproriately with a baseball cap and carrying an opened umberella. He was happy to photograph groups in any spot but was quite picky about which way they faced - on occasion insiting the photograph was taken into the sun - not the mark of a good photographer. He also only took photos if the group would pose with a picture of Kit William's Masquerade hare.
It eventually dawned on one team that this behavious was a clue. Indeed whenever a picture was taken, the line between Nick's umberella and the group intersected a line betweeen organizers Shaun and Alison Whitehead at precisely the spot where the treasure was buried!
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