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Conspiracy theorists see them everywhere, from the paintings of Da Vinci to the humble dollar bill. Real or imagined, the symbols of Freemasonry through the ages have beguiled and tantalised. Now their biggest secret may have been exposed in the heart of Scotland's biggest city.Research has suggested Glasgow Necropolis is a giant masonic symbol, fully 37 acres of landscaped metaphor.Historian Ronnie Scott has unearthed previously unseen patterns in the design of the early 19th-century cemetery. His theory, to be formally unveiled at the world's first conference on the history of Freemasonry in Edinburgh later this month, would turn upside down the history of one of Scotland's best-known landmarks. It would also make the Necropolis one of the biggest masonic sites on the planet.'The more I looked, the more I saw,' Mr Scott explained yesterday after years of painstaking study at Glasgow University. 'I began to see a pattern emerge and the Necropolis began to look like a very large and very solid representation of masonic ideals and symbolism.'The Necropolis is clearly a symbolic landscape and my research indicates that we should start to think of it as a freemasonic landscape, one that has been planned and modelled as the moral teachings of the Craft, made solid and very visible. Hidden in plain sight, you could say.'
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