A Life of Ley Hunting

1976

New Leypower Detector - March 1976
A combination of the two previous detectors - a quartz crystal cluster on a veneered chipboard base, surmounted by a copper cone on two triangular section cardboard supports. The chipboard base is on a wooden staff, pointed at both ends, one point engaging with a hole in the chipboard and the other inserted into the ground.

Tested at sunset March 30th 1976, stuck into the ground at the end of the garden (Addlestone), on St. Augustine's midsummer sunrise ley. Tests (right hand fingertips on crystal):

1 Shortly before sunset - fairly strong tingle but device fell over just after as not firmly embedded (swear word not recorded).
2 At sunset or thereabouts (deeper embedded). Stronger tingle.
3 After sunset but not yet dark. Hardly any tingle, disappearing quickly.

Crystal experiments 4th April 1976
Two ley points were chosen for these experiments - Byfleet parish church and a tumulus on Wisley Common. The object was to see if any tingle-reaction could be obtained from the ley power at these points, and to see if the church structure would act as a focusser. For this reason the crystal alone (no cone) was used in the church, placed on wooden structures in various parts of the church (about 2.45 in the afternoon).

Results for different parts of the church
1 On pew at west end under spire - no reaction.
2 On wooden font cover - very slight reaction.
3 On pew at entrance to music window chapel - a very good reaction, which continued when the crystal was picked up and held in the hand.

These results were not as expected - normally one would imagine the spire would focus the energy best. However, it does show that the power varies greatly in different parts of a church and that a crystal can be used to map the areas of greater or lesser power. Shoes on or off seemed to make little or no difference. The fact that the results were not as expected is further evidence against the idea of the reactions being caused psychologically. (Previous evidence for this was (a) the fact that in the original two devices it was not me who first felt the sensation, and (b) the failure to work of the second device after a while which made me give the matter up for a time).

At the tumulus, the full device was used, with staff end inserted in the ground on the tumulus summit and polished copper cone surmounting the crystal (about 4.00 in the afternoon).

1 No reaction immediately device erected.
2 Between 30 seconds and 1 minute after erection, a strong reaction and tingling felt also when hand held slightly above crystal. This suggests an electric field and opens this question once again as to whether the tingling is vibration or an electrical effect. Of course vibration in quartz would produce electricity through the piezoelectric effect, but this is usually too slight to be felt.

Crystal Experiments 11th April 1976
Further visit to Byfleet Church:
Strangely variant reactions (about 1.30 and energy felt less, doubtless this fluctuates during the day).

At first it seemed there were no reactions on the font cover or on the music window pew where strongest felt before. Then when picking up the crystal cluster at the latter place, an appreciable reaction was felt when the crystal was gripped fairly tightly. So the cluster was put back on the font cover and fingers laid firmly on it - a slight reaction. No reaction on electroscope.

St. Augustine's, Addlestone:
No reaction anywhere in church but a slight but appreciable reaction was felt when walking through the gate of the church (or just inside it) with crystal in right hand, which is the usual testing hand. No reaction to full device with cone set up at several places in the grounds.

Questions posed:

1 Why should there have been a reaction with hand above crystal at tumulus, yet need firm pressure at Byfleet Church and elsewhere?
2 Why no reaction of device in church grounds when quite strong reaction in own garden, with a concrete garage between me and the church?
3 Why no reaction in St. Augustine's (despite moderate head-hum) yet a reaction by the gate to the crystal alone, without cone or staff?
4 Why does the sensation disappear after such a short time (this has always been noticed - also with previous devices.

Further experiments at Byfleet Church:
20th April 12.50 p.m. (lunch hour).
It was attempted to see if the tingle was an effect of a boosting of the piezoelectric property of quartz by free energy. The crystal was on a pew near the arch in the south aisle, where a strong effect was felt before, and pressed with a cocktail stick while strip of paper held nearby. No reaction, and no tingle when touched. On font cover, paper held while touched crystal - no reaction at first but very weak (but appreciable) reaction when crystal pressed very firmly. No definite reaction with paper, though possible repulsion (?) Strong head-hum felt throughout.

21st April, same time
Likewise strong head-hum but no tingle felt anyhwhere in the church. However, when the crystal was pressed on the font cover there could have been a repulsion again in the paper (tissue paper this time). Interesting if a reaction in paper to charges too small to feel, though in this case the repulsion (if such it was) was too slight to be certain of.

Saturday 24th April - further experiments at Wisley tumulus. Morning - 11.00 approximately.
Set up staff, crystal and cone. First try with cluster - no reaction. Try with another crystal - still no reaction. Second try with cluster (after leaving a few minutes) a slight reaction but not as strong as before and no reaction above the crystal. There was too much wind (although only very slight) to test for electrostatic reaction with aluminium foil strip. All these experiments were carried out with one shoe off a slight tingling in the foot seemed to be evident on first touching earth (sock not removed). This was not certain. The soil was sandy with many tiny quartz crystals evident when they caught the light.

Byfleet Church, 27th April, lunchtime
1 A tingle reaction (with firm pressure) on window chapel pew (under arch) and an apparent attract-repel reaction in tinfoil strip held on cocktail stick near crystal.
2 As this was thought possibly slight air movement, the same experiment carried out on font top. No tingle, but same reaction in foil (Breath held throughout these experiments).
3 At original place, no tingle, but an apparently continuous and definite attraction to my thumb (of hand pressing on crystal). Very much weaker than attraction to a charged comb, however.

Results:
Apparently experiments show that electrostatic effects can be shown from crystal even when not strong enough to be felt as tingling.

No attraction when a control experiment was carried out at home.

Byfleet Church 29th April (lunchtime)
1 Window chapel - no tingling or foil reaction
2 Font cover - no tingling but attraction-repulsion reaction.
3 Window chapel againb - still no reaction.

Byfleet Church 30th April (lunchtime)
Put crystal cluster on font top to see if any unusual effect on film. (Agfacolor CT18 127 - f3.5, 1/5 second, set 9ft focus)

After this, tested with foil on cocktail stick - no tingle, no reaction.

Then tested at window chapel pew - no tingle, almost imperceptible reaction (not sufficient for certainty).

Again at font - a much stronger reaction, but still no tingle (possibly crystal too greasy - not washed recently -presumably this might stop current but not field phenomena).

Circumlibra theory
Recently noted a theory of Circumlibra (in current Ley Hunter) that leys are activated when the sun is in line with the particular ley. This would mean N-S leys activated a noon each day, E-W leys only activated half the year, etc. Looked to see if any ley coinciding with lunchtime through Byfleet Church, and found quite a good one going through Littleton Church and an interestsing unmarked centre at Heathrow Airport (near main buildings) where prehistoric objects were found when preparing the site for building.

Visit with Philip Heselton to Byfleet, Pyrford and Wisley Churches, 23rd May 1976
Byfleet: He agreed this was powerful, and the two most powerful spots to him seemed to be the pew where I had had crystal reactions (near window chapel) aned near the bookcase. No reaction on crystal today.

Pyrford: Said he detected very little energy hum, but felt a very peaceful "atmosphere" akin to Glastonbury Tor. No crystal reaction, but I received a tingle several times from a flint in the wall of the church. By the time Philip and Doris tried it it was apparently discharged for they felt nothing and neither did I afterwards. Flint was an unusual brownish colour - no other flint like it apparent in the wall. Philip suggested the brown might be iron content.

Wisley: He noted ley on path which seems to go through the stone, but said again very little hum, though he detected some in the west end, which the ley would pass through. No crystal reaction.

Findings on holiday early June 1976
1 New ley detector: (sandjar)
Jar tested with success in various places on Somerset holiday. Sand in unfiltered state (containing pine needles etc.) Good reaction at Meare parish church, confirmed by Doris. Slight reaction on jar at Castle Batch near Weston-super-Mare, confirmed by Doug and Jenny Chaundy. After this contents of jar spilt and when refilled would not work at other churches etc. Howeveer, when sand filtered after holiday, good reaction obtained at Byfleet Church near font but not near window chapel.

Jar demonstrated:
a that it was activated by firm finger pressure on the cork, confirming boosted piezoelectric theory.
b active at ley points but not elsewhere, showing the energy amplifies the piezoelectric effect.
c that the tingling was electrical (ran off pointed wires).

The jar is seemingly much more reliable and sensitive than any of my previous ley detectors.

2 General findings:
Meare Church, ancient, avenue of trees leading to it. Good head-hum and jar reaction.
Wedmore Church, Saxon church on site. Hum. Prior to testing jar, but tingle felt in two quartz crystals held one in each hand when under chancel arch (unusual feature).
Mark Church, ancient, perhaps name refers to "boundary" - hum.
Compton Dundon and Tilshead churches - hum.
Priddy Nine Barrows - sandstone outcrops on the barrows, though limestone in fields around.
Castle Batch - jar reaction. Centre of 3 leys.

Thurs June 17th
Tested jar and larger jar with more wires inside but only one leading out, with electroscope at Byfleet Church. No reaction on electroscope with either, though the small jar gave a normally strong reaction with the finger. The other gave a very much weaker reaction, though just perceptible.

Mon June 21st
Reaction from jar in St. Augustine's Church. No reaction on house extension roof.

June 24th-25th
Tested jar on Doris's abdomen to see if theory correct that a pregnant uterus has a strong free energy field round it. A quite good reaction, but later got detectable ones from my mother and father, though not from daughter Emma. More experiments are needed to show if tingle repeatedly stronger in pregnant people.

July 25th
Testing of jar at various places on a trip to Silchester. My father verified tingling sensations. Jar had wires which had not been polished for a week.

1 Duke of Wellington Monument (on good ley, using staff with jar - jar upside down with indentation in cork fitting point in top of staff. Other end of staff pointed to insert into ground. Cork sealed with candle wax to prevent leakage). No reaction
2 "Devil's Highway", not known if on ley (later found to be on one). Roman road from Silchester to London. An appreciable reaction when touching wood and wire with same hand.
3 Silchester church - no reaction
4 Vine Cottage, Silchester - reaction in back two bedrooms only, and a strong one over the well, which is a reliable spring which has never run dry in any drought.

July 26th
Same jar had reaction in St. George's Hill (BAC) car park, but oddly not in Byfleet Church today.

August 4th
Visited Row Hill, Addlestone (at end of Oakhill Road), interesting looking on map. No ley found as yet, but feel sure must be a point from the many unusual trees in the area, and beautiful spiral tree in the middle of the hilltop (now a recreation ground). A slight reaction on the jar by spiral tree.

Findings during week in Yorkshire/Cleveland
Saturday 28th August
Kirkella Church, locked

Sunday
1 Holme on Spaldingmoor. This church is on a very high hill dominating the village. Part of the track leading to it aligns on it. It is a ley centre. Energy felt towards east end. Had a circular churchyard with many unusual and double trees in it.
2 Market Weighton (All Saints) Possibly originally St. Helen's as St. Helen's Well and St. Helen's Square in village. Energy but stronger in west end around very ancient font (Philip confirmed this).
3 Goodmanham. Some energy but less than Market Weighton. More felt when sitting in sedilia. Is centre of many leys and known site of pagan temple.
4 Beverley Minster. Huge cathedral-like church. Amazing variations of energy. Felt outside north door. Very strong in Lady Chapel. Moderate all down main aisle. Nothing in transepts by Lady Chapel. Moderate to strong in main South Transept. These findings confirmed as previously-found ley centre was at east end (Lady Chapel) with a ley running down the main aisle.
5 St. Mary's, Beverley. Moderate energy but none in priest's room at top of spiral staircase.

Monday
Low Cross and High Cross near Lastingham, and aligning on church (ancient cross bases). Low Cross has a mysterious hole through it. No tingles at either Lastingham village crowded and church had service on - could not visit. Double and spiral trees by gate (on each side).

To Paul Screeton (editor of The Ley Hunter) at Hartlepool and to visit the Hart Stone, a small stone set in a pavement in Hart Village. Received slight but appreciabe tingle especially through trousers when sitting on stone. I do not think this was imagined as I have never before had a tingle from any other ancient stone. Paul had reported electrical sensations around sunset, in the magazine. Near the stone is a stream and across this is the Saxon church of Hart (Mary Magdalene). Could not get in as locked. Afterwards went to Devil's Bridge, but nothing specific there.

Tuesday
With Paul and Philip, visited two abbeys and a hilltop chapel

Mount Grace Abbey: No energy felt except perhaps a little by the trees by the gate, though many unusual trees, however a feeling difficult to put into words, of a potentially important place, perhaps one which will be important later. This not felt at Rievaulx. Lady Chapel not visible.

Mount Grace Lady Chapel: On hilltop above abbey, reached by long, steep path. A very powerful place, strong energy being felt all around the hilltop, but even stronger inside the chapel. The feeling of an "important place" stronger here and I think we all felt it. Leaflet says the place was "probably sacred in pre-Christian days".

Rievaulx Abbey: Slight energy felt in odd spots, especially N of main aisle (or really a little S of E as this church not oriented to E, but a litte W of S).

Wednesday
Lastingham: not crowded so visited church and crypt, very powerful at east end of church and in crypt. The church had a "special" feeling about it but did not seem as powerfu as Llanfair Talhaiarn (i.e., no numbness round head). Strange that pillar on right facing altar in crypt had spiral design, but one on left was plain.

Whitby Abbey: too rainy and wind-swept to notice any energy.

Rudston church and monolith: Perhaps the most interesting site of the visit from the "neolithic technology" point of view. The monolith, tallest in England, stands about twelve feet north-east of the church. It has deep vertical grooves in its narrow faces and is thus comparable to the Queen Stone (Alfred Watkins photo in Quicksilver Heritage frontispiece) which is also in the bend of a river. Thought to be embedded to a depth as great as its height.

The church and the stone are on a hill, which seems to show the highpoint-lowpoint system is flexible enough to fit all geographical conditions - i.e., lowpoints can be on hills if corresponding high point is on a higher hill - to put it lower might even screen the power from the lower hill. The nearest source of gritstone is ten miles away - a great engineering feat to bring it and embed it.

The village contains much of prehistoric interest - main street and Wold Gate both prehistoric trackways. Also many barrows and three cursuses. The name of the village is from "rood stone" as it may have had a Saxon crosshead fixed to it. I originally thought the monolith may have been part of a stone circle but do not now think this is likely as it has only one ley passing through it, in NE direction, thus through the church too) which goes also through Kilham Church.

Thursday
York: The Minster is fairly powerful especially in certain spots in the undercroft, where there are remains of an earlier Roman military building.

St. Margaret Clitherow's house: no energy felt even though Paul Screeton had felt quite a lot there previously.

Friday:
During the tour of Hull museums saw that Duggleby Howe (which we passed), a large barrow, was comprised of layers of chalk and clay similar to Silbury Hill (orgone accumulator effect?)

12th September 1976
Measurements at St. Augustine's Church Grounds
Fr. Richard Wells and I measured the St. Augustine's site to find if my original estimate was accurate and to find where the circumference of the circle woud come on the ground.

Found original estimate of distance from centre to river (66 feet or so) very inaccurate - in fact, we made the distance 84' 8". This is very near a whole number of megalithic yards (1MY=2.72") 31 MY=nearly 84' 4" - which is 4" different from our distance - an inaccuracy which could possibly be due to undergrowth in our way, etc. Later measurement with nylon line planned. This would make the circle diameter 62 MY.

London sites from "Prehistoric London" by E.O. Gordon first published 1914
St. Paul's Cathedral on site of temple of Diana, possibly stone circle site. Has possible midwinter sunrise line to London Stone.
Westminster Abbey, site of temple of Apollo, possibly stone circle site. On Thorney Island, and has midsummer sunrise line to Tothill.
London Stone, in wall of St. Swithin's Church, opposite Cannon Street station. Said by Sir Lawrence Gomme to have been regarded with supertstitious zeal; fate and safety of city depended on its preservation (Brayley). Stow: "Standing in Walbrook, on the south side of this High Street, neere unto the channell, ix pitched upright a great stone called London Stone, fixed in the ground very deep, fastened with bars of iron, and otherwise so stronglie set that if cartes do runne against it through negligence, the wheeles be broken, and the stone itself unshaken. The cause why this stone was there set, the verie time when or other memorie thereof, there is none". Jack Cade struck his sword on it in the time of Richard II.
Tothill, now disappeared, mound in bend of Horseferry Road, Westminster (Rocque's map 1746). Norden, in the time of Elizabeth I: "Tootehill Street, lying in the west part of the cytie, taketh name of a hill near it which is called Toote-hill, in the great feyld near the street. " Map in British Museum. Was on part of Old Palace Yard and New Palace Yard.
Penton: Nothing much known and even whether on Llandin-Tower line is not certain. Merlin's Cave Tavern, bricked up passageway?
Tower of London: Great Tower Street aligns on tower and the alignment goes to Primrose Hill. Well 150 feet deep lined with stone. Chapel of John the Baptist, midsummer saint.
Llandin, Parliament Hill. Tumulus on top, London clay base, sandy loam above. General Post Office on site of St. Mary-le-grange Sanctuary.
Dean's Yard, Westminster, holy well.

Some reflections on "Circles and Standing Stones" by Evan Hadingham:
Interesting recurring carvings seem very similar to a picture of a sperm entering an egg. The egg can be composed of a spiral or concentric circles. Could the "flattened circles" of stone circles be a representation of the Earth (a flattened sphere), perhaps to resonate with it in some way? Both the above would imply advanced knowledge, or traditions derived from a past advanced knowledge.

Letter from Evan Hadingham

West Lodge
Ridgemead Road
Englefield Green
Surrey TW20 OYD.
September 24 1976

Dear Mr Goddard,

Thank you very much indeed for taking the trouble to send me your ideas about free energy, which I have read and found most interesting, I'm delighted that you found my book stimulating and relevant to your theories. Please excuse a rapid response since I am in the midst of moving all my belongings up to Sheffield to start a course; I'll try to answer your 3 questions as best as I can.

1. The siting of stone/wooden structures. Very difficult to generalize, given the small number of wooden buildings so far excavated...you mention examples of elevated wood and stone structures as at Mt Pleasant and the Sanctuary. The usual theory is that there were wooden monuments in parts of the country where stone was not abundant (for example, eastern England, Arminghall etc). Wooden structures are common as early phases of long barrows, which are by no means all of limestone or even megalithic...there's a whole class of earthen long barrows which Paul Ashbee wrote a book about. Also there are wooden structures under round barrows, which are found not just in high places but also in valleys and next to henges and stone circles.

Really I'm just trying to emphasise the complexity: visit monuments) and the more you see, the more you realize how they escape most modern theories and generalizations (I include megalithic astronomy, geometry and ley-line theories when I say that).

2 For dates of stone circles see the magnificent new book by Aubrey Burl called The Stone Circles Of the British Isles, Yale University Press £10 (I can't afford it either), absolutely the last word on many of the problems of Neolithic/BA structures. We don't know about dates: stone circle round Newgrange 3000 BC; Scone, Perthshire 1500 BC - all the rest could be anywhere inside these dates, which cover the late Neolithic and beginning of Bronze Age. No reason at all why wooden structures could not be contemporary with stone circles (one assumes people lived in wooden houses.)

3. I think I've answered this above.

I don't see how you can prove your high/low theory when all but a few imposing wooden structures have been lost. You may certainly be right about an earth force and the existence of an untapped energy; what I don't think is right is the idea of a unified megalithic system, and all the research done since I wrote my book has confirmed my ideas (see Burl's book). For instance, I think there is enough evidence to show that the megalithic yard does not exist, amd that there was not a universal system of geometry, despite all the support Thom has had. This is not an assertion, but based on statistical work recently published (can send you refs. if you like). Burl shows how clearly megalithic remains split up into different regions, with very distinct styles - it's not all one movement, maybe not even the same religion (even if they were tapping the same force). I've just come from revisiting Dartmoor where I was reminded how unique the megaliths there are, especially the stone rows - nothing really like them outside Dartmoor - and they make the ley theory seem ridiculous, because they're so irregular, sometimes even curved. Tell me that the builders were marking lines of force, consciously or unconsciously, and I might believe you, but that they were doing the same things as builders in other parts of the country or participating in some sort of great system of ideas that extended over all Britain, is just not true.

In general I think the evidence is quite clear that these are funeral monuments, perhaps procession ways - almost invariably they lead up to barrows. How do beliefs about the dead tie in with your energy ideas? Neolithic people certainly had very complex funerary rites. Some groups of stone circles - especially the ones in Aberdeenshire - are almost always associated with burial structures.

I don't believe in the classic ley-line theory for various reasons, partly because I think the statistical chances of points joining up are surprisingly high, partly because prehistoric alignments are not as dead straight as could have ben possible using the eye. For example, there's a famous 21/2 mile linear cemetery of cairns in mid-Argyll which were built over a period of perhaps a thousand years or more (see my book, p 75). Even on the 6-inch OS you can draw a line on the map which will perfectly run through all the sites but on the ground it is obvious that if they had wanted to, the builders could have done better at lining the cairns up. To me this indicates that the builders wanted a straight line but were not that preoccupied with the matter. Perhaps they were following a line of force that wasn't perfectly straight. Perhaps also, they were simply marking a route down the valley to the loch. How can we know which is the right answer (maybe both)? This line of cairns couldn't have been astronomical by the way. Anyway, this example serves to show how hopeless 1:1 scale maps must be for lining things up, if 6" is inadequate.

Sorry to have gone on so, there's lots more I could add, I hope some of it's relevant and useful. Good luck with your continuing interests and theories.

Sincerely,

Evan Hadingham.

It has occurred to me that both the spot where the original tingle device was situated and the roof of the extension which gave a tingle are situated in close proximity to water pipes.

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