The weather was sunny and hazy; the party, Russell Dean, Phil ?, Jim Coddard, Eileen Roche, Gordon Millington, Rob Stephenson and Sibyl Webster, followed the footpath from the public car park at the Devil's Punchbowl back towards Guildford, found the memorial stone, which commemorates the murder of 2 sailors, on the left overlooking the, road and proceeded to Gibbet Hill on the right.
A derelict wayside cross or metal finger post approximately 85 feet high was found on the way, with dowsable energy all around it. A 12 foot high (approx) lona cross in granite had been erected on the site of the old gibbet, with the following inscription :
post obiter salus
In obitu pax
in luce spes
1851
This translates, according to Gordon, as :
In light, hope
In death, peace
After death, safety
The base of the cross was older, two feet across, comprising blocks of stone which had been reworked, and showed signs of metal bars or hooks. It was surmised that this must have been the base of the gibbet. There was a bench mark on the stone footing. 255 degrees was found as a magnetic line through the celtic cross. Jim had head hum at the gibbet. There was also a triangulation point on the hill, where Jim had a sand jar reaction.
Everybody dowsed with rods. An energy line 20 paces wide was dowsed from the trig point 23 paces to the iona cross. Many people had finger tingle using crystals at the trig point.
The party then continued on the footpath at the side of the A3 road in the direction of Guildford around the edge of the Devil's Punchbowl. The Woking Mosque Line was dowsed where the footpath crossed the A3, in a straight line along the footpath, over the road, and straight up the hill on the Punchbowl side - at the top of the hill the track carved a dramatic white line as a scar in the chalk, visible for a long distance, and marking significantly the Woking Mosque line. It was 10 degrees from true north on the compass.
The E-line was crossed on the footpath before this point, but it was impossible to mark the spot owing to lack of landmarks there. There seemed to be a great many points of energy all around Gibbett Hill and the edge of the Punchbowl; to find the E-line it was necessary to dowse selectively, asking only that the rods pick up that line, and ignore other energy lines.
Returning towards the car park, along the road at the edge of the escarpment marking the Punchbowl, the E-line was picked up by dowsing, 253 paces measured by Jim from the Mosque line. It was 37 paces wide, measured by Eileen, and 60 paces measured by Jim, at the point where a minor road led, according to the signpost, to the YHA from the A3 road.
The party later went to the Museum in Hindhead and asked to see the piece of the true gibbet alleged to be housed there. Although the staff instituted a long search, they were unable to locate this artifact, but they were sure it was around somewhere. They refuted our suggestion that someone might have taken it home with them.