Gwent
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Episode 7.12
4 May 1989
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| Contestants |
Fiona Smith, housewife and teacher from Hampshire, and her
sister Janet Brown, doctor from Hertfordshire |
| Hint to the Treasure |
It was cut out for Treasure Hunt |
| Clue 1 |
Take tetrapodous transport, pass into the ancestral home of
Henry’s third queen with a Welsh word of welcome – and try the osseous dish. |
| Leads to |
Penhow Castle –
among bones in a mock medieval feast |
| Clue 2 |
West of the aureate hill, at a viridescent slalom, chase caterpillars
Cresta-style and catch the pink on a dorsum. |
| Leads to |
Golden Hill, Llanllowell –
with grass-skier |
| Clue 3 |
Where lupine creatures meet a celluloid Long John Silver,
throw in your hand and take pot luck. |
| Leads to |
Wolvesnewton Farm Museum –
in clay on potter’s wheel |
| Clue 4 |
By the fluvial bank, where prime and nones were office hours,
take a message from the boss near the oriental fenestration. |
| Leads to |
Tintern Abbey –
near east window |
| Clue 5 |
Near FitzOsbern’s tower, cross the street of Rialto and Forth
for a Jacobite name and some crystal gazing. |
| Leads to |
Chepstow – ‘Treasure Hunt’ cut-glass bowl in Chepstow Museum |
| Result |
The contestants ran out of time on the final clue |
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