The Isis Adventure

my ambition filled twice in one day - what can I say!!

Puzz is spoiling us with two

http://www.isisadventure.co.uk/start/fr ... php?id=232

and this one we will leave for the rest of you to find

colin@tina wrote:and this one we will leave for the rest of you to find

Haha we'll do our best!!!

colin@tina wrote:and this one we will leave for the rest of you to find

Thank you, that is really decent of you, not that I have a hope in finding it - I can't begin to imagine the buzz, when you do.......(sighs)

I am all ears if you feel like lending a hand though..... although I do have initial thoughts on where this one could be.

think i know this one, too far for me though

I think I have an idea from the first two lines, but I'm not sure about the last two?

last 2 are a bit of a puzzle, I might just go there and see if there is anything to be found that relates to them

Find Erica and go anti clockwise.

Probably a real long shot, but i just noticied cornettracing80 sig:

Erica Owen deserves a raise, SonicWarp.

A quick Google finds her Facebook page, saying she is in the Wales network and a photo of her looking out over somehwere????
Is this the Erica Owen or someone random?

Well i just added Erica to my friend list so I'll see what happens, que confusion from my gf for adding random females...

shes worth it

golderm wrote:

Find Erica and go anti clockwise.

Probably a real long shot, but i just noticied cornettracing80 sig:

Erica Owen deserves a raise, SonicWarp.

A quick Google finds her Facebook page, saying she is in the Wales network and a photo of her looking out over somehwere????
Is this the Erica Owen or someone random?

Well i just added Erica to my friend list so I'll see what happens, que confusion from my gf for adding random females...

https://www.sonicwarp.com/inventors.php[url]

http://www.sonicwarp.com/news/2008/march2008.pdf[/url]
how about these? they would point to the guy behind her but that doesn't really makke any sense now does it?

adam

[Edit: I am a dork and went clockwise instead of counterclockwise fixed it we are all good now and I still have help you out abit ]

Erica includes the heather variety of plants. There might be a clump of heather at the base of the 'castle' that acts as a reference point from which you go anticlockwise 10 paces, 10 bricks etc. I noticed that there appears to be a perimeter fence around it so could alternatively be an anti-clockwise path around that. Don't think you are going to be certain about the last two lines until you go there.

Toxophilite wrote: Don't think you are going to be certain about the last two lines until you go there.

I agree, the area looks quite vast, and knowing Puzz it will be the smallest thing!!

A job for next week!

Toxophilite wrote:Erica includes the heather variety of plants. There might be a clump of heather at the base of the 'castle' that acts as a reference point from which you go anticlockwise 10 paces, 10 bricks etc. I noticed that there appears to be a perimeter fence around it so could alternatively be an anti-clockwise path around that. Don't think you are going to be certain about the last two lines until you go there.

I was thinking exactly the same thing about the 'Erica' heather.
I'm also very certain as to where the castle is. I am in the process of sorting out a day out to go look for it (it's the kids - it's like getting an army to move!).

Skizz

I plan to have a look around on Sat (I hope it doesn't rain).

I don't think that the Erica reference links to Heather, I now have some additional thoughts on this - so will let you know if it pans out

Hi,

We've found this one - we are new here; it has taken a few days to get our account registered.

After several failed (but close) attempts at finding a free ISIS, we were determined to succeed this time; we were within feet of the Dartmoor ISIS and the Ravenscourt Park one, and must have virtually kicked the Swinley Forest one. But this time we were not going to be defeated.

We were confident that the general location was right, based on the first two lines: "From this castle I can see pi. On a clear day I can see the Severn.". So it was somewhere not too far from the river Severn - I remembered seeing articles earlier this year about a crop circle which included a representation of pi to 10 decimal places. This turned out to be very close to Barbury Castle iron age hill fort, though the crop circle had since disappeared (it had been harvested on 20th July).

We were also pretty sure that "Find Erica..." referred to heather (based on the Latin name for heather), as it seemed likely that a hillfort would be a good place to find some heather.

So on Sunday 3rd August, we set off on a ~2 hour drive to Barbury Castle, in Wiltshire. We entered from the main Eastern entrance, and after a short distance round (anti-clockwise) we came to a relatively small patch of heather - which looked very promising! We continued a further 10 paces/yards/feet/degrees, looking for any likely stones to "peel", but without much success. We then completed a full circuit of the hill fort, looking for any other patches of heather - there were none! This seemed to convince us that we must be right, and searched again, to no avail. It was now raining, so we decided to leave, and find some lunch. We were in two minds whether to try again, or to head home, but decided on one final assault. This time we walked the full circuit again, and paid more attention to the information signs at the East and West entrances - we had previously read the one at the East side, but skipped the West one, assuming it was the same, but it wasn't - there was an important difference. This one mentioned Erica:
"In 1985 an unexpected discovery was made near Barbury Castle. During excavation of the Esso oil pipeline trench, the skeleton of an elderly woman, buried around AD 300, was found in a grave cut deep into the chalk bed-rock. She was probably a member of a local Romano-British community that farmed the area. The workmen who found the skeleton named it ERIC (Early Remains In Chalk). When told the remains were those of a woman, they renamed her ERICA!"

We used the location of the sign as the point from which we "go anti clockwise. Within ten, peel a stone". Sure enough, on re-joining the outer path round the hill fort, and within 10 paces, we came upon a stone in the path. By peeling back the grass growing round the edge of the stone, part of a small plastic bag was just visible, and inside it was the ISIS coin!

Just in case anyone else would get there after us, and before we were able to post our findings, we left a note inside the same small plastic bag, in the same location - saying this was where the ISIS had been.