Dowsing with Ged

Introduction The NT property I volunteer at is running several "Divining Walks" to give other volunteers and members of the public a chance to look at the moorland where dowsing is one of the tools we have used to try to understand the drainage system installed early to mid 19th century. The walks includes many aspects of the ecology and water management at Lyme but this post relates only to the Divining or Dowsing aspect. The content and location of the walks is based upon work carried out before the pandemic and you may wish to read  First Survey and Discovery as background to the rest of this post. ** update: only the first walk took place due to attendees failing to turn up Preparatory Outing I met with the organiser and another volunteer last week to look at the area chosen for the demonstration. The organiser (B) had not experimented with dowsing rods before. My colleague volunteer (K) had been involved in earlier pre-pandemic work on the moor, so had experienced reac...

This week presented an opportunity for an extensive experiment using rods to survey farmland for the route of an old fresh water pipe.  A 1945 ram pump had been confirmed from archives as providing fresh water from a millpond to a farm half a mile away cross country the other side of a hill. No plans or maps remain so this was a blind trial. My dowsing partner for the day had initially been an extreme sceptic but experienced rod crosses in an earlier experiment. He had constructed his own aluminium wire rods held in hollowed bamboo tubes for the day which worked well. [Subject 5 (Jk) in post A Separate Experiment  06/01/2020]  Prior Knowledge To make this honest commentary, I must acknowledge some prior knowledge and expectations. I believed that the freshwater feed would not be simply to the farmhouse as the ram pump's financial justification would most likely be to water cattle as farming intensified. Some mention had been made of "Whitesmead" as a destination, and thou...