Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!bradford@Amsaa.ARPA From: bradford@Amsaa.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Ley lines. Message-ID: <12181@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 14:35:33 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12181 Posted: Tue Aug 7 14:35:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 02:02:18 EDT Lines: 36 From: Pete Bradford (CSD UK)There seem to be quite a few people to whom a discussion of 'ley lines', right out of the blue, is pretty much on a par with somebody bumping into Greek for the first time! Let me, very briefly, put those of you who are interested in the picture...... I first came across the concept of ley lines in a British book, the title of which, as near as I can remember, is "The Old Straight Path". Again my memory is rusty on the author's name, but I'm pretty sure it's Alfred Watkins, or something of that ilk. He wrote the book in the 1920s. Watkins 'discovered' that certain features of the British countryside tend to lie on virtually straight lines; these features included tumuli, barrows, crosses(both stone and chalk crosses carved in the chalk soil), early churches, Roman sites, moats, isolated trees or clumps of trees, tumps, old inns, and places containing the name 'cross' or the syllables 'ley', 'leigh' 'ly', 'lay', etc. These sites are readily seen on the Ordnance Survey maps, but others such as notches in the sides of hills can often be seen only by travelling along a 'ley line'. Watkins' interpretation of these 'straight lines' was that they represented surveyed routes along which Ancient British Man travelled for specific purposes such as collecting flints, salt, etc. Watkins suggested that these straight paths would have represented the easiest way by which Ancient Man could have found his way over what to him would appear to be monumental distances. (Pun intended!) However, only a select few of the Druid chiefs would have the 'know- how', and - just as in many areas of today's society - they would guard this secret jealously. (This explains the 'magic' and the mystic qualities that these ley lines assumed in the minds of the common man, and which I mentioned in my previous letter.)