If you take a set of random dots on a plane and then pick two more rnadom points on the paper, there's anice formula for calculating the likelyhood that the line between these two points is uninterupted by one of the original points. Obviously, by rejigging this you can calculate the likelyhood that the line is interupted by a point ( one minus the first value ).

The formula is actually a function of PI, which is nice and just goes to show that nature has a sense of humour :-)

I'm trying to dig the formula out of all my old maths books. From what I can remember the likelyhood that the line is uninterupted is quite low, which means that the likelyhood that it will be interupted is quite high. Thus making alignments of three points in a large set quite likely by coincidence.

[quote="FourWinds". Take a four sheets of A4 and tape them together. cover them with 500 randomly placed dots. I'm sure you'll get several straight lines with three points on it.

Dead right , but if it is only a hundred lines and the sites are of the same type and period of construction .

With smaller distances it would be possible for a few sites to be built between a celestial event and a landscape feature. Whether the landscape feature was behind the monuments or in front of them, all three monuments would be on a straight line, even though they may not be inter-visible.

That is what I think is likely as well as other possiblities ,as I said ,epiphenomalism , a secondary unintended product of another process .

This could be by coincidence or design, but either way it's nothing to do with energy lines etc.[/quote]

I have said nothing that was not negative in relation to energy lines .
I used the term ley line flippantly but the fact is , is that these lines do fit into that definition . If they are unintentional and a product of another process then they are possibly not alignments either .