A James Bond note dated 1966 was found in an old fireplace at Elizabeth Castle in Jersey (Picture: Jersey heritage/Cover Images)
A mysterious James Bond note dated that is more than 50 years old has been discovered buried in concrete in a castle.
The handwritten note had been placed inside a glass bottle and then hidden in a fireplace in the officers’ quarters of 400-year-old Elizabeth Castle on Saint Helier island in Jersey.
It was found by Jersey Heritage staff during restoration works and reads: ‘007 James Bond…26 Feb 1966…P.S. Secret agent…Don’t tell anybody.
The back of the yellowing piece of paper is signed: ‘E.A. Blampied.’
It was discovered alongside pages 15 to 18 of the Reveille newspaper, published on February 23, 1966, says Jersey Heritage, a historic preservation group.
The date is two months after the release of Bond flick, Thunderball.
The signature, ‘E.A. Blampied’, hints at a connection to the renowned Jersey artist Edmund Blampied, who passed away in August 1966, a few months after the note was presumably written.
The intriguing note (Picture: Jersey heritage/Cover Images)
It’s signed E A Blampied on the back (Picture: Jersey heritage/Cover Images)
It was found in the officer’s quarters of the castle (Picture: Jersey heritage/Cover Images)
The fireplace where the note was discovered (Picture: Jersey heritage/Cover Images)
The note was buried in concrete (Picture: Jersey heritage/Cover Images)
Elizabeth Castle on St Hellier, a tidal island in Jersey (Picture: Jersey heritage/Cover Images)
Jersey Heritage posted the note on its Instagram and asked the public if they could help shed more light on the intriguing message.
The organisation oversees various history sites on Jersey, including Mont Orgueil Castle, a Medieval fortress on the shoreline, and La Hougue Bie, one of the oldest buildings in the world dating as far back as 3,500 BC.
They’re not the only ones to make an intriguing historical discovery on UK shores recently.
In Oxfordshire, a magnet fisherman was shocked to learn a rusty sword he had pulled from a river was a 1,200-year-old Viking weapon.
Trevor Penny was using a powerful magnet to look for metal objects in the River Cherwell near Enslow when he made the fascinating find.
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