Guess the shape?

Group of 3...just 1 missing

 Sunday 29th May 2011

To be honest it could take you less than 5 minutes to do a tour of Rushton Triangular Lodge. In fact if you were running it might be possible to do it in less than 2 minutes and that would probably include running around the outside as well. But the place itself will stay with you a lot, lot longer. It is one of the most unusual places that we have encountered and is just crying out to be a part of Dan Browns next "Da Vinci Code" book. So where do we even begin? Well back we go to the 16th century, it seems the whole area was a haven for Elizabethan

Have you worked out the shape yet?

England. Thomas Tresham was a Catholic and being a Catholic in a country that had recently decided that catholicism was a bad bad thing. So what did he decide to do? Build something that would secretly be a testament to his faith. So he created the probably the worlds most triangular building. Everything and I mean everything is in 3's or in the shape of a triangle.....why a triangle you may ask? To symbolise the trinity, the father, the son and the holy ghost. What we fail to see is how dear Mr Tresham could think that the local population wouldn't guess what he was up to. In fact the whole building is connected in some way or

How about now? any clues?

another to biblical references. And if being a triangular building wasn't enough...this building has connections to the gunpowder plot. For those kind people who have read our recent blog on Lyveden House, you will know that the son of Thomas Tresham was so annoyed at the way the government treated his father and family that he conspired with Guy Fawkes and tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The atmosphere in some of the places we have been to in recent days really is great. Today this folly is in a small Northamptonshire village and is in the middle of nowhere, and strange to think such a small house

Are you sure you can't guess the shape?

had such an impact on the world we live in today. There are 3 caches in the area currently and we didn't manage to find any of them. There seems to have been a fire in the area recently which has knocked two of the caches out, the other was a premium cache and for some reason my app decided to play funnies and wouldn't show it. So sadly Shiltonpigs geocaching adventures at Rushton were rather short, so apologies to all the extreme cachers out there who were hoping for some hardcore action in this blog! So back to the folly/house then....there are 3 dates on the side, one was 1580 which is supposed to be the date of

One last clue. Mr Shilonpig is helping you out!

Treshams conversion. However there are 2 more dates 1626 and 1641....people have tried to come up with answers to these questions. But team Shiltonpig have finally been able to figure it out. Mr Tresham was a visionary and wanted to set a cache for the future, the figures can be used to work out where a geocache can be found. Of course you have to add a couple of figures but you could work it out. Problem solved Thomas Tresham was an Elizabethan Geocacher! We kid you not! So if you are a fan of triangles and geocaching, there is no better place on the planet that the village of Rushton.