Field Trip to St Albans Abbey
Field Trip: St Alban’s Abbey led by Geoff Crockford and Nigel Hughes
We’ll dowse the Abbey and also the grounds of Verulamium park. The park stands on the site of the Roman city of Verulamium, excavated by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s. Roman city walls, a [...]
Warren Wood
Following the conclusion of the ROMADAM Project, AIM decided to do more investigatory work at Warren Wood on Sunday morning on the 23rd of November.
Unfortunately, the weather was not kind to us! A light covering of early snow, followed by a mixture of steady sleet and rain, left the ten visitors to Warren Wood, more [...]
Dowsing at Happy Valley
It does not often rain on AIM events, but on Sunday the 5th of October it rained and rained and rained.
Despite the inclement conditions, nine hardy AIM members turned out for a morning of Dowsing. Members Sue Brown and Jeff Griffiths instructed us in the art of dowsing and kindly brought along sets of rods [...]
Art of Dowsing
Sue explained how she was introduced to dowsing; the tools you can use and various sites where dowsing surveys have been validated by excavation or geophysics.
The need to find out more about two mottes and a bailey on the edge of Hamstead Park, was the reason Sue discovered dowsing. A Garden Historian, Ted Fawcett, was [...]
