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Subject: Ley lines.
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Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 15:22:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 15:22:36 1984
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From:      Pete Bradford (CSD UK) 

	A couple of things have come to mind since my last letter...

	Firstly, Watkins suggested that certain chalk carvings such
as Wilmington Man could represent 'memorials' to the Druid surveyors,
since they often depict what appears to be a man - often quite
obviously not a woman! - carrying a stave or pair of staves. Here 
is a crude diagram of Wilmington Man...........


                           |  O  |
                           |__o__|
                           |  o  |
                           |  o  |
                           |  ^  |
                           | | | |
                           | | | |        (EXPURGATED VERSION)



	Secondly, I would like to throw in my own 'two-pennorth',
as we Brits call it...

	In Wales, there are a number of pretty straight roads,
mostly now no longer part of the general road network, marked on
Ordnance Survey maps as 'SARN HELEN'.

	Since the word 'sarn' means track or causeway, it has been 
said these roads were named after the sweetheart of the local Roman
Commander - some say Julius Caesar's girlfriend. I have never
before publically stated my theory about these tracks, but, as
a Welshman, (who was looking for a modern Celt the other day?)
I know that the Welsh word 'Hellen' means 'salt'. IF, then, you
believe in ley lines, couldn't these old tracks be those which
led to sources of that vital commodity - salt?


				PJB