Day 43: Madeleine Scrubland Hunt Ends

Updated: 10:49, Friday June 15, 2007

Police looking for missing girl Madeleine McCann have finished searching an area of scrubland in Portugal where an anonymous letter claimed she was buried. Police vans, one carrying sniffer dogs, had moved in at first light in the village of Arao, not far from Praia da Luz.It is now 43 days since the girl was taken from her bed as she slept in the Algarve resort. Sky News Correspondent Ian Woods, near the search site, said: "We're talking about an area of several square kilometres." The village which was cordoned off lies just north of the main road from Praia da Luz to Faro. Meanwhile Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann have been focusing on finding their daughter alive. Police did not treat the search as a priority yesterday but "with all the media attention the letter had got, they thought they better have a good look", he added. (Sky News)

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10:15pm ...

Maker of Crescents - Esoteric studies ... Man who rides the chariot has visited the scene. He gains inspiration from a 'lunar Neptune' and continues to drive the band wagon further

Four of Staves - Four staves point from the outer edges of the defined space. Each leading to a central rectangle. Within the central rectangle hangs a golden crown. A symbol left by the 'eagle' ... the staves are wrapped with grape vines ... a strong indication of 'I heard it on the grapevine .. pass it on (like chinese whispers perhaps) ...

Something has been 'planted' here by a visitor to the waste ground who is in a position of trust ... are those who enter the 'designated area' searched to see what they carry in ... just because something appears 'to be in order' by visual inspection ... doesn't mean it is what it appears. If you were to have stopped him then (or now) what would you have seen?

A gold chain? A necklace....??? To whom would such a find belong?