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Pillar 6 contains a grid of rectangles and dots, a series of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine Enigma]-style rotor scrambling wheels, two lines of alpha text and a series of numbers around its base.
 
Pillar 6 contains a grid of rectangles and dots, a series of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine Enigma]-style rotor scrambling wheels, two lines of alpha text and a series of numbers around its base.
  

Revision as of 00:48, 10 March 2013

Pillar 6 in daytime

Pillar 6 contains a grid of rectangles and dots, a series of Enigma-style rotor scrambling wheels, two lines of alpha text and a series of numbers around its base.

Dot Dash Grid

Rotor Wheels

The pillar has four Enigma-style rotor wheels, and one reflector wheel. Above the first rotor wheel is the alphabet. The four rotor wheels move freely between incremental stops. The reflector wheel is fixed in position. Each wheel (including reflector) has triangular markings that can be aligned, presumably to indicate a starting rotor position.

A schematic of the scrambling rotors will be difficult to make, but I will try to do this.

Alphabetic code

There are two lines of text below the rotor wheels. They read:

DL BIOB AXQC NLPA MNXE SBNT FJLD

KH JAWS FDHD MATX EJHM PVUJ XJOM