Dear Phil,
Oh yes it does! Its just that as a serious archaeologist, I don't pretend to know what I've found with it until I dig it up! It can only be used as a general guide. As for identifying, let alone finding coal seams with it 200 feet down? I rest my case.
>
> From: "Newman, Phil" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue 29/Jul/2003 10:07 GMT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Dowsing
>
> Robert,
>
> So dowsing works does it?! Shame on you. I thought you were a serious
> archaeologist.
>
> Regards
> Phil Newman
> (EH archaeological Investigation, Exeter)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Waterhouse [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:10 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Dowsing
>
>
> Seriously dodgy. Basically, because while dowsing works (albeit for some
> people but not others) it is almost impossible to know what the rod/s are
> telling you. As an example, I heard recently of a person who paid a local
> dowser to find water on their land. Instead, the rods indicated several
> locations, which when dug produced the following items: Three walls, one
> pipe trench (with live electricity cable) and one geological fault, the
> excavation of which was abandoned when it reached 12 feet - the length of
> the JCB bucket - and still had not reached water!
>
> The basic problem, is clearly that you don't know what you are getting. I
> understand that when using bent coathangers, if the rods go out, its a solid
> feature, and if they go in, its negative (this is archaeological dowsing,
> which works for me), but I would not like to comment on the likelyhood of
> detecting coal seams at depths up to 200 feet........
>
> Robert Waterhouse
> >
> > From: Simon Chapman <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Tue 29/Jul/2003 10:02 GMT
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Dowsing
> >
> > Some advice please particularly from anyone with the necessary experience,
> which I haven't.
> >
> > I recently borrowed a map made up from O.S. 1:2500 sheets on which has
> been drawn the extensive underground workings of several mines which worked
> stratified ironstone in three separate seams. These mines are declared to
> have been active c.1870 but the map was compiled in 1988 from information
> obtained by dowsing.
> >
> > The compiler has used this information to produce an estimate of over 2
> million tons of output during about 6 years of active mining, with a
> suggestion of export from the area.
> > Further maps by the same compiler exist for other areas and one at least
> has been used by a local author in the only book so far published regarding
> the mining history of one locality.
> >
> > I have no quibble with dowsing in general as my youngest son was at one
> time very good at it, but that was not mining related. However, these mines,
> described as "Lost" on the map, do not appear in the Mineral Statistics, nor
> have I found any documentary reference to them. In the Geological Survey
> Memoirs of 1892 the working of the relevant seams is described and is at
> odds with these maps.
> >
> > These maps and the information they contain appears honest and the date is
> February 1988, not April 1st. Seam depths are from surface to 200 feet deep
> at most, each seam perhaps two feet thick but not all three worked one above
> the other, with an estimated 50% extraction.
> >
> > My query therefore is how much reliance should I place on maps of such
> underground workings obtained by dowsing?
> >
> > Regards, Simon.
> >
>
>
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