Dowsing and church archaeology

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Title:	Dowsing and church archaeology
Number of Pages:	192
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Publication Type:	Monograph
Abstract:	(Charles Thomas provides the foreword.) Discusses the development of church archaeology in England and the use of remote sensing devices before turning to an account of dowsing as another possible tool in the recovery of buried information. Numerous sites in NE England were tested by excavation after dowsing: although some results failed to confirm the dowsing evidence, by far the majority provided validation. Despite the lack of an underpinning theoretical explanation for dowsing, the technique seems to work and archaeologists should seriously consider adding it to their other methods of exploration. The practicalities of dowsing are explained and it is stressed that dowsed results must be checked over a sequence of visits, preferably with independent checks by other dowsers.
Author:	Richard N Bailey Eric Cambridge H Denis Briggs
Year of Publication:	1988
ISBN:	0 946707 13 8
Note:	Date Of Issue From: 1988
Source:	BIAB (British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
Created Date:	05 Dec 2008

Bailey, R. N., Cambridge, E. and Briggs, H. Denis. (1988). Dowsing and church archaeology.