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tiompan T
tiompan Nov 6, 2013 15:22:01
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Dowsing . (gets coat)
Results of a big geofizz exercise at Arbor Low and Gib Hill have just been published. Since that's about the most intensively dowsed area there is it'll be interesting to see if there's any equivalence.
The problem is that dowsers tend to "do it at ancient sites " where you might expect something to be found , same applies to non -dowsers who can just as easily say " I always thought there was something likely to be found there " .

Whatever turns up somebody is bound to say "I told you so" . When a dowser finds a monument , battle site ,burial ,object hidden from view , in an area that has no obvious association then it will be of interest .

N nigelswift
nigelswift Nov 6, 2013 15:30:20
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
Whatever turns up somebody is bound to say "I told you so"
No problem with that so long as all the others say "I didn't" so the claim can be seen in context. The monkeys that typed Hamlet might just have got lucky, we have no way of knowing from a single observation.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Nov 6, 2013 16:31:52
Replying to tiompan

Nice to see dowsers, and archaeologists with a more open mind, working together though, as they are at present on the re-erection of Carwynnen Quoit -

“Pip Richards, archaeologist, dowser and activist, who founded The Sustainable Trust with the explicit aim of restoring this endangered leviathan [Carwynnen Quoit] to its former glory. Pip’s tireless work (this event immediately followed three exhausting days spreading the word to all and sundry at the Royal Cornwall Show), ably assisted by a host of fellow dowsers including Andy Norfolk and Bart O’Farrell, has set a chain of events in motion that, fingers crossed (he said, in the most scientific manner possible), will see the major stones back into their former sockets before too long.

“The hugely positive undercurrent of this undertaking is the way in which Pip has managed to draw together the dowsers and the archaeologists (and the archaeological dowsers) to support a common and inter-related cause to such good effect. While the British Society of Dowsers (BSD) Archaeological Dowsing Group (ADG) has made a number of inroads and friends in the profession in recent years, this is a prime example of the two disciplines working together under one banner.”

From A Megalith at the Edge of Oblivion: Dowsing-assisted rescue archaeology at Carwynnen Quoit.