MATTERS ARISING

The General Post Office, or as it is now known, the Post Office Corporation, is well known for its raising of charges. In addition, we note that many issues of publications posted, as well as ordinary letters, are not reaching their destination. The IGR has had this problem, and we see that the magazine IGNEWS and various materials of the society Subterranea Britannica have also been lost by the POC. If you have not received any issues or publications you ought, please write to us, as it is not our fault that they have not arrived – it is the POC’s.

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FENRIS-WOLF’s spring publishing program is now well under way with the publication of THE SWASTIKA by Nigel Pennick, a fully illustrated investigation into the use of this ancient sign. Also just published are THE INDESTRUCTIBLE CASTLE, an essay on Paganism by Nigel Pennick and MOTHER SHIPTON: HER LIFE AND PROPHECIES by Nigel Pennick and Sheila Cann. Also under production is LEY LINES IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE, translations by Prudence Jones and Michael Behrend of the complete known works of the Nazi period German geomantic researcher Kurt Gerlach. Forthcoming IGR publications include the first paper of results on the CAMBRIDGESHIRE LEY PROJECT, the works of a l920s Orkney geomant and a learned work by Jeremy Harte on the White Cow and its place in geomantic lore. Watch this space for further details.

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We have recently found that a tumulus on one of Watkins’s Cambridgeshire leys we are investigating has been destroyed by road-works for the Cambridge Northern Bypass. This fact received no press mention in either the national or local papers, indeed not a whisper in other circles. How many such objects (this one a ley point) are wiped out each day as a tribute to Moloch?

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A recent discovery of geomantiquarian interest has just been made in perusing a scarce copy of the Victorian antiquarian publication The Reliquary. In the issue for July, 1869 is the first reference (to our knowledge) to the work of William Henry Black, the expert on Roman roads who postulated the. existence of ‘grand geometrical lines’ crossing the countryside and defining certain important sites. The text as follows:

I should like to add to the account of this discovery in the Reliquary for January, that when I exhibited drawings and specimens, and gave a verbal description of this structure (a ‘kiln’ at Winterton) at the Society of Antiquaries, a strong opinion was expressed by Mr. W.H. Black, that it was an Agrimensorial Arca, or mound of earth set as a boundary mark (terminus). At his request I furnished him with an account of the exact spot at which the discovery was made, and he subsequently informed me that on referring to his map he found that very spot indicated by a convergence of lines as one upon which such a terminus must have been erected.
J.T. Fowler.
The Reliquary, Vol X 1869–70, p. 62.