Michael and ourselves have worked together ever since. So, I am about to tell you a story which may provoke ridicule and scorn, but it is a faithful account of events riddled with such happenings. They have become an accepted part of everyday life.

One day, having read Watkins, Michell, Underwood, Screeton, Pennick and others, and having fortuitously been inoculated with the dowsing faculty by a certain member of this Society, an idle and motley group set out upon the Downs of Sussex to see if the ability to dowse water and gas pipes would also identify mysterious energies that were said by some to flow along ley alignments. The conventional vision of man that the reasonably well-educated westerner is required to accept was not exactly fulfilling, and the idea was that there might be something else, something one was prepared to try and test. Some would call that state of mind prone to POST HOC RATIONALISATION: others would call it a state of mind open to other realities.

The place chosen was Wolstenbury Down, where, from the London road, may be seen a strange plateau projecting from the side of the Down with a Long Barrow in front of it, about the size of a football field. The Ordnance Survey says it is a disused chalk pit and the Sussex Archaeological Society says it does not exist. Anyway, it looked to us to be an anomalous situation, and a good place to try and see if Underwood's findings applied to it.

The theory that it is a disused chalk pit seems to make no sense, because the spoil from the excavation is still there; it is at the top of the hill and not at the bottom where a modern chalk pit is still happily functioning; and the internal geometry - albeit asymmetrical - appears to be significant because we found that it was repeated in identical form in many other similar sites along the Downs which, if they were all chalk pits, implied some sort of conspiracy among chalk pit miners to leave their pits without ever having taken anything away with the spoil in identical configurations. It seemed unlikely. All these sites have dominating positions over the Sussex Weald and are facing north from the north slopes. There are none on the southern slopes.

That day at Wolstenbury, in the back of the excavation, where one might assume the SANCTUM SANCTORUM would be, we found a spiral formation in the shape of a ram's horn. (Note: this was a dowsable energy form).

As we came away, my brother David said: "Look, there's a straight line here." We followed it casually and generally agreed that it was there. It seemed to come from the back of the excavation, where the ram's horn effect could be dowsed.