Tag: Ley Lines

I came across this interesting article by Bel Jacobs on the BBC website, dated November 2, 2022. The author explores the six day journey, and resulting art, of artist and performer bones tan jones, along some of these ancient roads.

“I’ve always been interested in the opposition between the natural and the artificial, the sacred and the un-sacred,” explains tan jones. “So I decided to walk from the entrance of the Silvertown tunnel… to the monumental stone circle at Stonehenge, and see how I could connect them.”

bones tan jones, Artist and Performer

Bel also explores some of the history of ley lines through the writings of several authors.

“Ley lines? Energy lines? Surely the preserve of myth makers and fairy followers? Not to start with. The term was originally posited, just three years after the end of World War One, by Alfred Watkins, a councillor in rural Herefordshire in the UK. Born in 1855 into a well-to-do farming family, Watkins was also an amateur archaeologist; it was while out riding in 1921 that he looked out over the landscape and noticed what he later described as a grid of straight lines that stood out like “glowing wires all over the surface of the county”, in which churches and standing stones, crossroads and burial mounds, moats and beacon hills, holy wells and old stone crosses, appeared to fall into perfect alignment.”

Author Bel Jacobs

If this has piqued your curiosity, you can find the whole article here.