A
Life of Ley Hunting
1979
Ley Hunt Easter Weekend,
April 1979
The main result of this ley-hunt on Easter Saturday and Easter Monday was the
discovery of a ley running approximately westwards through the following points:
Mound by Silver
Mere, not marked on map but later confirmed in local paper as "burial mound
for ancient chiefs".
Gentle rise in housing estate near Byfleet church. Remains of mound?
Houses bend in crescent round it.
Group of pines in field.
Dodd's Lane, Byfleet. Best find of weekend, typical Watkinsian "straight
track" with Dod name. Housing estate with long field track aligning, clump
of pines at the end.
Pine group on Pyrford Road.
Tumulus near Sheerwater. Two scales of map disagree; only one tumulus
found in field, but ley goes through it. Compass variation at first? Not sure.
Other points found over weekend were pine clump with slight sandjar reading at Crickets Hill, Send, possible road-middle mound on "parish boundary ley (very dubious) near Papercourt Farm, Send.
Visited Pyrford Church again, but little jar-reaction; however, was very tired.
Possible ley detection
through measuring human electrical potential.
This thought came when seeing if any reaction would be obtained if one held
a wire leading into the input of a power amplifier which is part of the Open
University T100 Analogue Kit (the output was then earthed through a voltmeter.
It was noticed with interest that reactions varied in different places, namely,
the back room, the girls' room, our bedroom and St. augustine's Church. These
seemed to relate to sandjar readings. There seemed no reaction from wires leading
from a sandjar. Seemed to vary between different range settings.
8.50 p.m. Saturday 28th
April
Upstairs: 2 volts.
Downstairs: 0.125 volts.
2.45 p.m. Saturday 28th
April
Our room: 0.5 volts (1v setting), 1.7 volts (5v setting)
Downstairs: 0.125 volts.
5.00 p.m. Sunday 29th
April
Rosie's room: 2 volts
Our room: 0.8 volts
St. Augustine's: 0.15 volts rising to 0.2 volts over about 30 seconds.
These seemed to approximately match sandjar reactions.
Touching the chassis of the unit makes the needle go off scale in all locations, possibly through positive feedback (amplified charge returned to the human system to be amplified again).
Taking shoes off (at a discussion group meeting) gave varying reactions, possibly due to static charges on carpet affecting human potential. Rubber soles seem to be essential to ley detection capacity (if indeed it is a genuine effect).
Attempts are being made to obtain equipment that can be run off a battery, so that proper research can be done.
The theory is that leypower affects human electrical potential, and thus could be a reason for feelings of wellbeing on some ley sites. There are possible health implications here.
Findings on summer holiday
at Shepton Beauchamp, near Ilminster, Somerset.
(Wayside Cottage, Middle Street, Shepton Beauchamp)
Parish boundary meeting
point. Nothing very overt, though field boundaries seem connected with parish
boundaries.
Green Lane End road. Although this road meanders, its mean points directly
to Oak Hill. The tops of the trees are very visible as a clump all along this
road, moving first to the right and then to the left of it. The hill, however,
cannot be seen as it is blocked by an intervening ridge.
Shepton Beauchamp Church is also visible from the road beyond Green Lane
End.
Green Lane End, on ley from parish boundary meeting point. That point
visible and field boundary in alignment. Also Oak Hill visible, with road leading
to Green Lane End in direct alignment. Shepton Beauchamp church and "Burrow"
one-tree hill visible and prominent.
Field track alignment. Perfect "Watkinsian" alignment of field
track with "Burrow" a little further along road from Green Lane End.
Readings on O.U. Meter
Kit in cottage.
11.10 a.m. Wednesday
Bedroom: 1v scale: off scale, 5v scale, 2.3 volts
Children's room: 1v scale: off scale. 5v scale: 2volts
Montacute House: "hump-clump"
to north-east, visible from upper window. Seems to correspond with hill near
"Cole Cross"
Montacute Church: seemed powerful (head-hum), nave out of line with chancel,
church was on site of Saxon church circa 1100. Chancel slightly north of east.
Nave due east. Norman chancel arch and Early English windows.
Attempt to make sandjar
reaction visible. Addlestone, 28th June 1979, 8.30 p.m.
Apparatus was a glass coffee jar filled with Wisley sand, and a vending
machine cup containing water pressed into the top of it. There was a control
vending machine cup of water nearby filled to the same level.
It had been noticed that vibration in water was very visible if a beam of light was reflected off the surface. Noticed in a cup of tea in Plessey office, where there is a constant buzz of an air conditioning unit.
In the experiment it was
noted that (when windows shut to exclude noise as much as possible) both cups
showed vibration in their water, but the sandjar vibration was considerably
greater. This remained so even when the positions of jar and control cup were
reversed, and when the cup was removed from the jar to become the control cup,
and previous control cup inserted into the jar. The cup was pressed firmly on
to the sand in the jar, and the light source used was daylight from the window.