To hide the small dig site Williams took with him a fresh cow pat in a tupperwear container, and he and Gascoigne attempted to work out the correct height to drop it from so that it looked natural, and hide the digging.ĭuring the four years the hare was hidden English Heritage did some work on the monument, but the hare was not disturbed. The burying was done at night and witnessed by then host of ‘University Challenge’ Bamber Gascoigne. Williams had buried the hare in a clay box on Ampthill Park in Bedfordshire near a monument to Henry VIII’s first wife Catherine of Aragon. Although that isn’t the end of the story. The book was a sensation and in 1982 the puzzle was solved and the hare was found. The book took the country by storm as legions of armchair treasure hunters attempted to solve the clues and find the prize. Each of the 16 paintings in the book contained a clue that solved a riddle that would lead to a prize, a real sold gold hare made by Williams and hidden in the English countryside. ‘Masquerade’ was a book published in 1978 by the artist Kit Williams. ‘Masquerade’, Kit Williams ~ Jonathan Cape 1978
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