A bloggee now in foreign parts but has some knowledge of Huttoniana has commented on the new village hall:

' loved the bit about the hole in the wall in the new Hall. Do you think it could be a lookout post to watch for invaders from the West - or are they going to put one of the old pictures in it for posterity!!'

Indeed Sir, many people have been intrigued by the spy in the sky. It was particularity striking when it had a neat brick surround but that has now been rendered over. The window is looking south rather than West so it could be used, like the old Border watch towers of old to keep an eye on the maurauding English Rievers-now generally replaced by more peaceful incomers, here for pleasure rather than plunder. As for the reproductions of the old masters in their gloomy wooden frames they are in safekeeping-suitably enough in the old residence of the benefactor who presented them to the former hall in the first place. Put a picture in the window? Now there is an idea as I don't think the old reproductions will be in keeping with the interior of a spanking new building.

How about the Hutton copy of the Mona Lisa? Alynwick Castle has its connections with Harry Potter. Perhaps with old Mona by Da Vinci, smiling intriguingly from the top of the hall we may become a Mecca for those conspiracy seekers who have flocked to Rosslyn Chapel in their thousands in search of clues to the Holy Grail. Someone from the Hutton Think Tank (Myths, Maybes and Magdalene section) has suggested that one interpretation of the Code points to Hutton as a likely spot for its hiding place-perhaps under the foundations of the old Hall concealed amongst the ancient Butts* which gave the area its name. Indeed one scholar has suggested that the Hutton Reproduction is actually older than the original I wonder What Mr Dan Brown might make of this?We await his reaction


* A cryptographer points out if you give 'Butts' its full value which is 83 (a=1, b=2 and so on) and do the same to 'Sangreal' (:Holy Blood: Holy Grail )the value is 77. Add on 6 for the mystic letter F (as in Father, Football etc) you get 83: QED.  ¶ 8:31 AM