Glastonbury Tor, pictured above, a visible neighbour to the Mump, a centre of Arthurian legends – and also crowned with the ruins of a church dedicated to St.Michael’s Borough, and topped with the ruins of a church dedicated to the Archangel. The Line touches the Hurlers, a Bronze Age set of three stone circles, so called because Christian legend has it that they are the petrified remains of men practising the sport of hurling during sabbath.
Michael’s Mount, an island monastery off the Cornish coast, and a sister site to the better-known Mont Saint-Michel on the Norman-Breton border.
Michael Line does cut an intriguing trajectory across southern England. Both these hills appear to have been artificially shaped so that their axis align with each other, and their orientation, 27 degrees north of east, can be read off a large Ordnance Survey sheet.”Īs this quote suggests, the ‘revived’ ley lines are no longer merely putative remnants of neolithic surveying they are imbued with mystical qualities, their significance explained by or explaining such diverse phenomena as dowsing, ancient astronomy, feng shui, the Nazca lines in Peru, and sacred geography of both the Christian and pagan sort.Įsoteric theories are usually long on mysteries and short on facts. These two hills are Glastonbury Tor and ‘The Mump’ at Burrowbridge some ten miles to the south-west. Michael with ruined churches on their summit. It appears to be set between two prominent Somerset hills, both dedicated to St. Michael Line of traditional dragons sites in south-west England (…) is remarkable for its length and accuracy. Ley line lore was rediscovered and embellished a few decades later, most notably by John Michell, whose book The View Over Atlantis (1969) was the first to discuss the St. The book led to a flurry of ley line exploration in the twenties and thirties, but Watkins’ hypothenuse-rich hypothesis proved too iffy for mainstream science.
The first book devoted to ley lines was The Old Straight Track (1925), in which amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins argued for the existence in Britain of an ancient system of straight trackways that connected landscape features and prehistoric monuments.
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