I began this study of a possible ritual landscape, popularly known as ley lines, in 1971 whilst working as a land surveyor and cartographer. By 1975, I had become so disillusioned with the standards of published research that I decided to select an area for intensive study in an attempt to determine to my satisfaction the validity or otherwise of the outwardly preposterous theory that prehistoric people designed their environment, presumably to encompass their religious beliefs. Using my knowledge of the topography and archaeology of the Guildford area to my advantage, I spent countless hours analysing maps, surveying and field walking, computing and writing, and testing ideas and methods in an attempt to establish some working criteria.
After a time, I had accumulated binders of hand-written notes, sketches and computations (this was in the days before home computers) but grew increasingly occupied by the pressures of building my land survey business and raising a young family. Gradually, my research fell by the wayside. In September 2012, I became semi-retired and came across all my neglected papers while setting up my home office for part-time consultancy work. Today, the difference between those early years working with drawing film and a protractor, log tables, and scale rules is that I am a world away from the fantastic capabilities of the modern computer, enabling me to work more efficiently and accurately.
The decision to be made was how to present this work comprehensively and accurately to promote discussion and further research. Consequently, self-publishing in the form of an e-book would not be suitable, but the idea of a blog format became much more appealing. I would be adding to the work at my own pace, using pages for the primary data and adding stuff regularly using posts. This has the attraction of being involved with the readers and gaining feedback comments. Once the posts have been edited and commented on, they may be moved to an appropriate page.
Being well aware of the many problems, such as the lack of documentary or archaeological evidence for the intentional alignment of ancient sites and the archaeological establishment’s valid criticisms of research in this field, I have given much thought to the standards adopted in this work and hope that it may be seen as a sincere and unbiased effort to shed some light on what has become one of the most controversial fields in fringe studies.
It will be noted that I have not used the term ‘ley line’ (or leyline) in the context of this research. In recent years, leys have become associated in people’s minds with earth mysteries, esotericism, and rightly or wrongly, with the so-called ‘lunatic fringe’. The term ley (pronounced ‘lay’) has now become common to mean a line of geomagnetic force detectable by dowsing upon which ancient man erected his monuments, possibly to tap earth energy. How much credence should be given to these theories is not my present concern and is outside the scope of this work.
The renowned archaeologist Aubrey Burl, arch-critic of the ley-cult, has said, ‘There are vestiges of truth surrounded by morasses of nonsense’. (PM, Radio 4, Dec 1979). I like to think that I am discovering a few vestiges of truth and hopefully guarding against becoming bogged down by nonsense. But I have been too close to this project to be able to judge how the balance between truth and nonsense has panned out. Further work needs to be done, other areas need to be analysed, research needs to be coordinated, and, most importantly, the intentionality or otherwise of aligned sites needs to be resolved if that can ever be possible.
I have tried to include only the evidence that I believe can be acceptable to a reasonable degree of accuracy using the best resources available. I have worked as far as possible to the greatest accuracy using the largest scale Ordnance Survey maps downloaded from the internet. This work is being checked on the ground using the best available hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS). I have tried to use only those findings that appear more likely to be designed than those that are coincidental. I aim to put forward only that evidence I believe can be fairly said to be beyond chance.
Despite intensive internet surfing, I can not find other researchers working to the required accuracy and, therefore, can draw few analogies with related research. The primary purpose of this work is to present my findings from many years of study for comment and discussion.
I am setting out this work by devoting a section to each of the alignments in the order I regard as most significant. I begin with a graphic layout and a summary of the line. This is followed by a description of the various points on the line, covering their location, history, physical attributes, and positional accuracy.
Over a half century ago I gave a talk to the Edinburgh Society of Dowsers on my research on a large cup-marked boulder lying prostate in the hills above Crieff, Scotland.
This stone had been placed above, and, I discovered, took its energy from a powerful geological fault beneath it, ‘The Highland Boundary Fault’
It emitted waves of energy, some 7 metres wavelength, 1 metre amplitude, with a cycle time of just under 2 minutes (straight ley lines are standing waves, the energy from cup marked stones are in roughly circular energy circuits),
A few weeks later a lady from that group turned up at my flat with a physicist who was interested in my research. I spent about an hour showing him my map of the one outside circuit I had mapped out, using a simple divining rod, following the energy on foot, which connected to many old burial grounds. When I had finished I asked him if this made any sense to him, could he understand what I was finding?
To my surprise he said “no, this is well above what physicvists know, and you needn’t ask any other physicist either, as I teach most of them in this country, but carry on with your work as it looks like you are discovering a knowledge unknown to present day science.”
Which I did, for another decade, until I had mapped out another four circuits inside this one, which eventually showed a cup-marked shape circuit very similar to two joined cup marks on the boulder, with another two, one more like a skeleton of a cup mark inside (line drawing of cup marks in box, top right).
Six stone circles, I found, take one cup-mark ley and project it to another part of the country, forming another, shown on the boulder as a ‘child’ cup mark.
Why does one cup mark energy circuit favour mainly old burial grounds? At one point discovered that when I happened to think of a friend of mine who had died recently, the weaving wave suddenly contracted to an amplitude of less than a metre (increase of energy). When I stopped focussing on him the wave returned to 7 metres wavelength. Thinking of someone who had died 20 years ago the phenomenon returned, but took much longer.
Something of immense importance could be rediscovered if others took up this work.
After writing several books on this research and giving some talks, and my website (see below), I expected others to follow in my footsteps on other boulders with similar petrolyphs.
Since my books have sold over 16,000 across the planet, I expected that there would be some who would carry on with this amazing work, but there are none that I know of.
The discovery of why our ancestors pecked out ‘rock art’ is there for the taking, but will never be discovered unless others learn to use a simple divining rod and follow the energy fields.
(The reason the marks were pecked out is because percussing the stone caused it to resonate) The reason many of these stones were covered with soil is because they were meant to broadcast their energies across the country. If they were meant for display they would have been kept clean and looked after).
Website is leylinesexplained.com