It was a beautiful, dry day with bright sunshine and folds of evaporating mist when Eileen Roche, Gordon Millington and Jim Goddard, accompanied by Rob Stephenson of the London Earth Mysteries Circle, arrived at Anstiebury Camp near Coldharbour, south of Dorking (Grid reference 153442).

A grey squirrel scampered ahead of them as they entered the camp, a bleak area which had been heavily wooded but which had been devastated by a gale. Many trees were uprooted, particularly large, old yew trees. Clearing and felling work was obviously in progress. The fallen and cut wood was steaming in the warm sunshine, reflected in many puddles left by previous rainfall, and a beautiful, peaceful atmosphere gave a sense of tranquility. A clump of Scots pines was passed on entering the camp.

Gordon, Eileen and Jim dowsed a strong energy line with both copper and galvanised iron (coat hanger) rods. The line ran north-south through the middle of the camp and seemed to be comprised of many distinct bands. It ran through the water tank un der an earth mound which seemed to be at the hill's highest point. The windmill on the mound was turning briskly, casting dappled, moving shadows on the surrounding vegetation and contributing to the special atmosphere. There was what seemed to be an archaeological dig (or foundations for a building?), mostly full of very muddy water, behind the water tank, which was just covered at one side of the energy line.

Rob checked out the camp ramparts, confirming the total shape as an irregular oval, with fortifications or banks on three sides except the south, which had an escarpment. He reported that the entrance was either through the north or north-east side, and found that an encircling energy line was strongly pulling from the outside to the inside. At a place on the north-east bank, where some magnificent fallen yews were vigorously trailing new bright red roots from 10-15 feet in the air towards the ground, Eileen found an oddly-shaped and worked bone in the hole left in the ground by a toppled yew.

There was no sign whatever of the E-line, which the group had been tracking.

The group then repaired to the old Plough Inn at Coldharbour, the highest pub in the south-east of England, for refreshment and warm-up. Sitting in front of a roaring log fire, Jim and Eileen both experienced a tingle quite markedly from Jim's new improved sandjar (a jar chosen to be a better shape for compression of all the sand, and filled with sand from near the Drake Stone in Northumberland).

Opposite the Plough was a large brick-built water tank, partially covered by a mound of earth and overlooked by a large old house with a clock on its wall facing the road. Keeping these on the left, the group walked up the lane through Buryhill Woods, with Crockers Wood cottages on the left. At the car park for the cottages the energy line being tracked was picked up very clearly by everyone. Jim, Eileen and Gordon dowsed it with the two types of rod, Jim pacing it at approximately 105 feet wide (42 paces at two and a half feet each pace) - Eileen paced it as 112 strides wide. Rob dowsed with a pendulum and strongly confirmed the middle of the line as consistent with the place indicated by Eileen and Jim. However, he found the width indicated by the pendulum to be less. Eileen and Jim experienced tingles from crystals as they approached the line and walked it. Gordon found on the compass that the line was running approximately east-west.

Everyone then returned past the Plough, continuing up the hill to the east, and picked up the line again just north of the T junction with the road to Anstiebury Camp. Eileen and Jim dowsed it with the metal rods, Eileen measuring it as 69 strides wide. Gordon checked with the compass, finding that the energy line was running approximately east-west. Rob, using copper rods, confirmed with Eileen that the middle of the energy line centred on the "Children Please Drive with Care" sign at the east side of the road.

An interesting point here was that whilst walking up the hill and reading the map, Jim had insisted that the E-line should be found just before the white cottage at the T junction. Eileen replied that her dowsing rods were absolutely dead. While Jim and the others dowsed and consulted the map, Eileen found the line further up the road. Jim then discovered he had been misreading the map. This is evidence for the conclusion that the energy line is something real and not just a psychological reaction obtainable anywhere we expect a line to be. We were pleased to have this evidence of the line's existence and delighted to have Rob's independent confirmation of the findings. Everyone remarked on the beauty of the scenery and the number of yew trees between the Plough and the white cottage.