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Destruction of ancient sites, actual and threatened continues apace. Apart from two of the stones in John Michell’s Old Stones of Land’s End, and the Grey Wether near Kit’s Coty in Kent, which have all been removed recently, there is now a threat to a major site which might demonstrate the geomantic layout of Saxon royal palaces – Rendlesham. The seventh-century palace of the Kings of East Anglia is known to lie beneath Rendlesham Forest, tho its site has not yet been discerned (archaeologists haven’t yet tried map-dowsing, or working it out geometrically). The forest has just been chosen as the site of an underground bunker system for the United States Air Force, who operate planes out of the nearby Bentwaters airbase. In addition to the palace site, the forest houses many {14} species of bird and one of the few remaining colonies of red squirrels. If the 260 acre forest is razed for bunkers, archaeologists hope to get in to rescue whatever the bulldozers turn up. Protests should be addressed to the Ministry of Defence.

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Students of the geomantic arts often come across forgotten works in libraries. Many of these works have not been looked at since the libraries obtained the copies. Your editor recently found such a book in the University Library in Cambridge. Dated 1882, the pages had never been cut. It had never been looked at, yet it contained some rare information on ancient Scottish stones. If the University Grants Committee get their way, such books will soon be destroyed. The well-known archaeologist Professor Richard Atkinson was chairman of a working party on libraries of the University Grants Committee. A proposal, which was adopted, was put forward to combat the problem of full libraries – destroy old books. Now the first act of totalitarian regimes when they come to power is to root out all the books they don’t like and put a match to the lot, preferably with accompanying speeches. The University Grants Committee won’t be as spectacular. Although it cannot force universities to adopt the policy, it can and will withhold money for libraries’ extensions from those who refuse. The plan goes as follows: When university libraries become full (like most of them are already), old and ‘less used’ books will be first removed to a store. After an interval of five years, the books will then be shipped to the National Lending Library at Boston Spa, which will keep one or two and destroy the rest. Not sell them off to individuals and societies – destroy. Ostensibly, the move is to enable the libraries to have only what people want to read – but it enables a subtle mind-control to enter the academic arena (from which it is rarely absent). Books which are not ‘OK’ can be eradicated. Those wishing to read them will have to send to Boston Spa for them, and will have to pay £2·50 a time for the privilege, in addition to having gone on record as wanting to borrow these volumes. And if they don’t want you to read them, it’s easy to say they’ve been lost or stolen. The implications for geomantic research are obvious. Some works are rare enough as it is. With these kind of guardians of knowledge, who needs philistines?

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Road works near Bar Hill (about 5 miles north of Cambridge) in July this year unearthed six human skeletons. They were at first thought to be Saxon, as a Saxon beaker had been dug up nearby the week before by a mechanical digger. However, the skeletons had no grave-goods, meaning they were not Pagan, and neither were they orientated, which meant that they were not Christian. Archaeologists are not allowed to talk in terms of geomancy, so they announced that these skeletons were those of people who had been hanged at a gallows which ‘must’ have been there. The reasoning? The bodies had been buried at a Crossroads, which was a High Point on a straight road at the point where it crossed the Parish Boundary. The bodies were not Orientated. Perhaps they hadn’t heard of suicides or heretics and their burial at crossroads, but the significance of these ‘coincidences’ was not elaborated.

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If you know of any destruction of ancient monuments of geomantic interest, please contact the I.G.R. so that we can contact the appropriate authorities. So much is going on that we cannot hope to monitor it all. We are at present trying to get something done about Avebury and the Kit’s Coty ‘Grey Wether’, as well as the dire plight of T.C. Lethbridge’s excavation of the Gogmagog hill figures at Wandlebury. The way things have been going for the past century and a half is not slowing down. Only the major ‘monuments’ are preserved – as at Kit’s Coty, only the major stones have a fence round them – the rest are unprotected.