Location: Old Sarum - SU 1332
This alignment runs for 18i miles and passes through six sites: a tumulus, Stonehenge, Old Sarum, Salisbury Cathedral, Clearbury Ring hillfort, Frankenbury Camp hillfort. The photograph shows three of the sites - Old Sarum in the foreground, then the spire of Salisbury Cathedral aligning with the edge of the earthworks of Clearbury Ring. The ley passes just along the outer banks of both hillforts, a feature noticed by Alfred Watkins and common in leys passing through hillforts.
Old Sarum is an intriguing site, having begun as an Iron Age fort, of which a deep outer ditch remains. Inside a settlement grew up in Roman times, which was later occupied by the Saxons, and then a Norman castle was built, the considerable ruins of which can still be seen. In the eleventh century a cathedral was founded here, but two hundred years later the
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Site was abandoned and a new cathedral founded in the nearbv water meadows, where Salisbury Cathedral still stands. 'I'he foundations and chapter house crypt of the old cathedral survive and can be visited.
The alignment of Stonehenge with Old Sarum, Salisbury Cathedral and Clearbury Ring was first noticed by Sir Norman Lockyer, an archaeologist working at the beginning of this century who also noticed other alignments of ancient sites and believed that they indicated sunrise and sunset at certain times of the year. This alignment was checked and extended by Paul Devereux and Ian Thomson for publication in their classic ley-hunting work. The Ley Hunter s Companion.
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