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Re: Ley Lines
Nov 14, 2010, 21:07
I've been having a read of Alfred Watkin's 1922 'Early British Trackways' and found it really interesting how he went about proving a ley.

[Quote Watkins] 'Remember that the entire course of a ley can be found from two 'undoubted' sighting points on it if marked on a map. Therefore stick a glass headed pin in these two points, apply the straight edge, and rule the line, pencil in at first, ink afterwards'.
When you get a "good ley" (his words not mine!!) on the map, go over it in the field, and fragments and traces of the trackwaywill be found, always in straight lines, once seen recognised with greater ease in future'.

So for him it wasn't just a case of 'joining up the dots' and claiming a ley line, but getting out into the field and actually proving its existence by the evidence still available on the ground. Pretty neat eh!
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