This is truly one of the most spectacular prehistoric sites in the UK and I would strongly recommend a visit to anyone provided they have no walking difficulties. The paths are recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting; by singing these songs in sequences, indigenous people can navigate the deserts of Australia's interior. John thinks he has found Ley Lines from Camberwell Road to St Pauls, and from Walworth Road to St Giles.

Still in print, the book speaks from a more innocent age: blending a love of rural and historic Herefordshire with quotes from WB Yeats and George Borrow, and a charming openness about his own assumptions. In 1983, Ley Lines in Question, a book written by the archaeologists Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy, was published.William the Conqueror was certainly not an ignorant man nor a mere warlord, but one of the last monarchs to fully understand the meaning and implications of asserting one’s power upon an ancient mound of veneration. We visited,amongst other places the site of Uffington horse, Uffington castle (iron age hill fort), the modified dragon hill and the wonderful natural amphitheatre in which this is situated.

The natural bowl of this site complete with ridges found in the landscape formed at the end of the last ice,age ensures sound is enlarged within the site and there are,claims that the blowing stone which is now situated in the front garden of a,cottages in a village some way away was at one time situated here. Watkins believed that the Long Man of Wilmington in Sussex depicted a prehistoric " dodman" with his equipment for determining a ley line. They also demonstrated that ley hunters had often said that certain markers were Neolithic, and thus roughly contemporary with each other, when often they were of widely different dates, such as being Iron Age or medieval.He presented this as a challenge to archaeologists, urging them to examine his ideas in detail and stating that he would donate a large sum of money to charity if they could disprove them.

Across the world, spiritualists, ghost-hunters and conspiracy theorists believe very deeply in the magic of Ley Lines - but unfortunately, the truth about them might not be as supernatural as you might expect. Ley lines are straight lines that can be seen to run through sacred sites and important geographical features. He came to this conclusion after comparing Watkins' ideas with those of the French ufologist Aimé Michel, who argued for the existence of "orthotenies", lines along which alien spacecraft travelled. I'd add to that, make sure you do it out of sight of policemen or security cameras or you could be fined for littering.The Sanctuary and the circle were later merged, and in recent historical times it became the Christian Sanctuary of the Collegiate Church of St. I found out about the Circle of Perpetual Choirs, druids who would always be singing, at a stone circle or old yew tree or a place of strong earth energy, to maintain the peace of the land.

Intersections acquired local significance, becoming meeting places and markets, then later burial mounds and temples. The historian Ronald Hutton similarly noted that there had been a "virtual demise" in the idea by the 1950s, in part due to "a natural weariness with a spent enthusiasm". Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. One ley lines enthusiast, Philip Heselton, established the Ley Hunter magazine, [23] which launched in 1965. By extending the St Pauls line he found it landed on a burial mound and had lots of manor houses along it.After WWII many developers succumbed to the temptation to create grand landscapes breaking with tradition, and many have since reverted to older patterns. But in many ways, for the artist, the journey is ongoing, still sending out its tendrils between myth and history, past and present, the human and the more-than-human. The bubble was burst, a little, in the late 1980s when scholars Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy worked out that the density of archaeological sites in the British landscape is so great that a line drawn through virtually anywhere would "clip" any number of significant places. If the conical mound was built by Brutus, as is alleged, then its deliberate alignment to its two nearby sacred sites, and the subsequent triple alignment to the winter solstice Sun, is evidence that homage was paid by the Trojan warrior to the overarching religious principle of the land, and that the sacred foundations of the area were to be continued. His critics noted that his ideas relied on drawing lines between sites established at different periods of the past.