Alfred Watkins
Alfred Watkins (born January 27, 1855 , † April 15, 1935 ) was a British hobby archaeologist.
While marking some southern English megaliths on a map in 1921, Watkins discovered that they did not appear to be distributed randomly in the landscape, but rather followed a straight line. After lined up English villages with the endings -leigh or -ley (Old English for "clearing, clearing") they were called Ley lines . There are many attempts to explain the phenomenon, but they are often scientifically controversial. Alfred Watkins suspected among other things old trade paths, "old straight tracks" with the shortest line of sight.
The scientifically plausible explanation for the ley lines comes from the archaeologist Richard JC Atkinson, who demonstrated by the position of payphones that the presence of hypothetical "payphones connection lines" ( English telephone box leys ) purely random in nature and a normal statistical distribution follows. Thus, such lines would not be intentional artifacts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ (1) Clive LN Ruggles: Ley lines. In: Same: Ancient astronomy. To encyclopaedia. ABC-CLIO, 2005, ISBN 1851094776 , pp. 224-226
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Watkins, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British amateur archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1855 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1935 |