HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT - UNMASKING SCOTLAND'S FIRST KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
A campaign to safeguard Scotland's hidden medieval heritage.
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Consider us ROGUE archaeologists. Common heroes CHALLENGING the establishment.
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We have been given charge of the world’s ONLY provenanced KNIGHTS TEMPLAR artefacts—two preceptory bells, sponsored by a Templar Master.
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The bells' provenance is supported by incontestable EVIDENCE—not opinion—not speculation.
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The establishment dislikes our discovery. It CANNOT dismantle it. The proof is too COMPLETE—an embarrassment to current academic understanding.
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We URGENTLY need to find new approriate safekeepers for the bells—promote the find—outwit academic and institutional prejudice.
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We want to BENEFIT those who assist us place the discovery into public record—add to historical understanding—help those we can through the find.
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​Can you help us? Will you join us in the adventure?
The Campaign
In 2020, the world’s only significant provenanced medieval Knights Templar artefacts were discovered in a derelict Dumfriesshire church—they are unique and priceless.
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Despite indisputable evidence, the discovery is negligently denied authentication by the Scottish government, purely because it is made outside academia.
For hundreds of years, the site of Holywood Church was understood to be a twelfth century-built Templar religious house; with its bells installed into the current church in 1779. This history was corrupted by blatantly ill-formed unresearched Victorian conjecture.
The owners, campaigning to restore the truth of the bells and site, desperately need the public's help to circumvent academic prejudice and the Scottish government's indifference regarding the promotion and delivery of its own heritage policy.
The Research in Full
The Finders' Journey
Under the peal of two ancient bells, is the story of two people's discovery and their fight against academic prejudice to have recognised, one of the most important historical discoveries of medieval Scotland, found within a catalogue of misplay and a dilapidated church-with the remains of a Templar church beneath its floors.
