Dowsing.

Having never been involved in Dowsing I was interested to hear a contribution at the SLHS meeting last night from someone who, while sceptical regarding this method of divining water and disturbances in the soil, had interesting experiences whilst using the rods on one of the Killerton farms. Later whilst discussing the mattewr with Paul Frost he said that he had been able to determine water courses and ground disturbances on John Lee's farm at Thorverton. My mother also says that when my father worked for the Engineering firm, Garton and King in the early 1950s he also had some interesting experiences with the dowsing rods when taking site engineers to locations where water courses needed to be determined. It would seem that this method of determining ground conditions is much more used, even by people witrh a degree of scientific training then might be imagined.