March 2004 - Berry Down Earthworks
- alifedivined
- Mar 10, 2004
- 3 min read
Awash in a Forest of Energy
Last month saw a large group of TDs on open moorland, in full view of the public, in the blazing sunshine, on a site thoroughly pre-dowsed and archeologically examined. Talk about chalk and cheese! March found a small band of us in a neglected pine forest in the pouring rain, with barely a smidgeon of information as to what we were dowsing - and with even the Archaeology Department of Cornwall reduced to describing the few visible mounds in the sketchiest of manners. It had been difficult enough for Allan to discover the owners of the site, to obtain permission for us to gain entry - and even then he'd had to enlist his grandson to strim away enough of the brambles to enable us to reach it at all!
So, real cutting edge stuff. Slightly surreal, but seriously interesting.
As soon as we reached the woodland, the canopy of pine provided a welcome umbrella. Our first feeling was not the sterile, sombre, even sinister, ambience of a typical conifer forest - but a light, airy and very welcoming sensation, which stayed with us all morning.
In typical fashion the TDs scattered themselves across the site, looking for energies of all types, previous uses and dates of building and occupation.

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