Jim Goddard, Gordon Millington and Eileen Roche set out to test the theoretical line drawn on the map from the energy line dowsed on 7th October at Pitch Hill. They chose the straight track at TQ204458, and parked the car on the bridleway opposite the entrance to Shellwood Manor, noting that there was a mound of earth in each of the two fields at opposite sides of the road. The bridlepath had a dowseable energy line running along it (detected by all three present) but was not in line with the original ley found. The Scots pines alongside the houses on the other side of the road from the bridlepath were noted.
The energy line continued from the bridlepath across the road and past the houses to the left in the drive to Shellwood Manor. Each house, besides having Scots pine clumps, also had two oaks each facing the track. There was dowseable energy running between each pair of oaks. Holding a crystal here gave a tingle reaction in the fingers to Eileen and Jim.
The energy line continued through the farm, until at the big barn on the right the straight track coincident with the original ley was met. Energy was dowsed by all three for quite some way along the track. A line was found at right angles to it running along both sides of the hedge at the triangulation point. It is suspected that the drive to the farm, which is at an angle to the track, may have another energy line, passing through the triangulation point and going on to what seemed to be a brown mark amongst the green vegetation on a distant hill. Itwas decided at some later date to try to investigate this by taking compass bearings, intersections and back compass bearings to find the spot on the hillside and dowse there for energy.
The mounds, clumps and triangulation point are all on an alignment running parallel with the entrance drive - but if, as this work seems to show, these lines have width, then it is coincident with the drive (as the rods seemed to indicate). At the second farm gate on the left from the big barn which straddled the start of the straight track Eileen and Jim dowsed the width of the energy line. This was 70 small footsteps wide (Eileen) and extended into the fields on both sides of the track. Facing Pitch Hill, the right side of the energy band extended just into the field at the side of the track, but on the left side it extended a considerable way into the field.
At every intersection with field gates Eileen noticed that there were animal paths at right angles to the track. At the triangulation point there was an animal path through the hedge to the next field, in the middle of which was a fresh hole about three inches in circumference, possibly a rat or snake hole). Eileen noticed a grey squirrel running along the track and disappearing between the first and second farm gates. Jim took a number of photographs.