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The Discovery of Ley Lines

Blackwardine, near Leominster, Herefordshire

Where a Hereford businessman saw ancient sites lining up across the land.

On 30 June 1921 Alfred Watkins, a Hereford businessman and keen photographer, was looking at a map near Blackwardine. He suddenly noticed that ancient sites, such as standing stones, hillforts and old churches, seemed to fall along straight lines across the country.

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When
30 June 1921
Where
52.2150, -2.6500
Group
Unexplained

Visiting

Blackwardine is a quiet hamlet. Hereford Museum holds Watkins's photographs.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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