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Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 06 May 2007  Page Views: 3274

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A Cambridge historian is to use divining rods to locate forgotten stone circles. Paul Daw is visiting Cumbria this month to use the mysterious rods - believed by some to help locate "earth energies" - to try to plot the exact position of the stone circles.

He said: "My main purpose will be to try to obtain verification that the three stone circles I believe I have found on Bleaberry Haws are in fact stone circles."

Prof John Waterhouse from Anglia Ruskin University, author of The Stone Circles of Cumbria, is going to look at the site next Sunday.

Other archaeologists will also be visiting.

cambridge-news.co.uk.
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Re: Hunt for Ancient Circles by AngieLake on Sunday, 06 May 2007
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Could this be the breakthrough that dowsing has been waiting for?! I do hope Paul Daw is successful.

I first learned to dowse for missing stone circles, hut circles, and rows on Dartmoor. Someone explained their theory of why we might sense that these stones once stood where we 'divine' or 'dowse' them to have been:
A stone is generally quite heavy and presses down on the earth beneath it. If it is moved away, the earth is still more compacted underneath it and will hold more water than the earth surrounding it. Thus our rods pick up on that small patch of ground. (Usually by crossing, if you are holding two L-shaped copper rods, like we do.)
So, even if there is no stone there, it doesn't mean to say that one never stood there!
Also, if a stone is still buried, there should be a crossing of the rods over it, if that is what the dowser 'asks' for.
If Paul Daw has permission to dig, his efforts may quickly be proved.

When I first learned to dowse, we used to 'ask' for the centre of a circle and walk forward in the 'search' position following the direction of the rods, and when they crossed, we'd mark the spot with a small flag on a short bamboo stick. (A stick on its own is hard to distinguish from the terrain.) Moving from the 'centre', we'd 'ask' for the four major compass points at the outermost circumference of the circle. Having marked them we'd walk around the outline of the circle, following the directions the rods were pointing, marking the arcs as we went.
Once the outline is found, the dowser could walk around the outside of the 'circle' asking for the energy 'in', thus finding the spaces between the stones that once formed it. Or they could just walk the circumference of the imaginary circle, 'asking' for the rods to cross as they pass over the spot where each stone once stood, and moving the flags into the position of the 'stones'.

Another way that outlines of circles could be found is to ask for movement in the circle whilst it was in use for ceremonial, or ritual purposes. I've developed an interest in this in recent years, hoping it will help to explain how a site was used, and to possibly tell us more about its design.

So, dowsers can use a mixture of water-dowsing (which I don't knowingly do), archaeological dowsing, and energy and movement dowsing.
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    Re: Hunt for Ancient Circles by bat400 on Monday, 07 May 2007
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    "If Paul Daw has permission to dig, his efforts may quickly be proved."

    I myself am intrigued to know how his "confirmation" will be made.
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