A recent email from Dave Tinnis, an advertising executive from New York, has drawn attention to something very interesting in the Epiphany Window which may hold clues to the whereabouts of the lost Ark.  See The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant.

Dear Mr. Phillips

I have recently visited England and went to the chapel in Langley to see the Epiphany Window.  When I was examining it, I immediately realized something that you do not mention in your book or on your site.  The gift that one of the wise men is holding, right in the middle of the widow, may well represent the Phoenix Beacon on top of Burton Dassett Hills.

It was from here that you had to observe the two stars Benetnash and Mizar.  In the window, the two stars are represented by the double star image and the initial letters M and B in the window boarder next to them, and the phoenix to the right of the star represents the phoenix hills.  The “midnight crowing cock” indicates the hour on Epiphany Day that you should observe the stars and the red brick arch image below the star indicates the little Victorian red brick arch that stands in Chapel Green over which the stars were shinning. It would make sense that the image of the wise man’s casket, being right in the center of the picture, also has to have some importance in the code.  It is a very strange shape for a container.  In fact it is a golden, tubular structure with a conical top – exactly like the beacon on the Burton Dassett Hills.

If you look at the entire top potion of the window, it all makes sense.  From the casket – the beacon – you have to look toward the star image – the two tail stars of the Big Dipper.  Below the star image in the window is the red brick arch and on the horizon where the tail stars point is the very similar arch that is all that remains of the holy well at Chapel Green.

I know that this is partly going over ground that you have already covered, but it may help you decipher more in your search for the lost ark.

Yours truly

Dave Tinnis  (davetinnis@yahoo.com)

Graham’s Reply

I think you may be right, Dave.  The tower on top of the Burton Dassett Hills is very similar to the odd-shaped casket the Wise Man is holding up – right down to the castellated rim.  Incidentally, the beacon is known as Phoenix Tower, after the old name for the hills, and the design on the casket that we took to be an eagle may well be another image of a phoenix.

Thanks so much for your help

Graham Phillips