SALISBURY:
Geology and Archaeology:
NB Sonic phenomena in the Salisbury area are likely to
have been generated by the movement of subterranean water and the sedimentation
of sound within alluvial deposits:
The city of
Salisbury is built on Alluvium overlying Valley Gravels at the confluence of
the rivers Avon, Nadder, and Bourne. These were part of the Solent river system
which was eroded down through the floodplains to create a series of river
terraces in the Quaternary period some 2.6 million years ago.
In the more recent
periods the city has extended up onto Upper Chalk and Plateau Gravels towards
Old Sarum in the north and Harnham Hill in the south. The site of Medieval
Salisbury is very low - lying within the valley, giving rise to floods in the
city, for example in 1836, 1841 and 1883.
Two branches of the
Hampshire Avon (East and West) both rise in the Vale of Pewsey, north of
Salisbury, and the river flows southwards through Salisbury centre. Within and
around Salisbury, there is the confluence of five main river systems: Avon,
Nadder, Wylye, Bourne and Ebble.
The bedrock geology
of the Salisbury area comprises mainly of Chalk, with a small area of
Palaeogene deposits. The Wittering Formation is mainly brownish grey laminated
clays; sands with clay bands; clayey sands; and beds of glauconitic sands.
London Clay underlies the Wittering Formation and outcrops along the axis of
the Alderbury – Mottisfont Syncline. It comprises of grey or brown (olive green
when unweathered), commonly micaceous silty clay, known to become more sandy
and pebbly towards its base. It outcrops on the gentle dip slope behind the
minor Reading Formation escarpment.
Structurally,
Salisbury sits within the Wessex Basin, which comprises a system of
post-Variscan extensional sedimentary basins and ‘highs’ that covered much of
southern England, south of the London Platform and Mendip Hills, during Permian
to Mesozoic times
Possible contributing factors:
The cathedral has
the tallest church spire in the
United Kingdom (123m/404 ft) – could this be acting as some sort of giant
focusing antenna that channels electromagnetic frequencies into the ground,
releasing dormant resonances in the manner of a lightning conductor? Geometry
within the construction of the cathedral itself may also be a factor here. Cooke and Kidson identify ratios of the square
roots of 2, 3 and 5 in the generation of the plan of Salisbury from Old Sarum
Cathedral, within a mystical numerical principle known in mediaeval Christendom
as ad triangulem.
The Salisbury cathedral clock dating from
about AD 1386 is supposedly the oldest working modern clock in the world. The
clock has no face because all clocks of that date were sonic timepieces that rang out the hours on a bell.
Old Sarum started as a huge Iron Age hillfort and
subsequently saw occupation by the Romans, Saxons and Normans. As well as its
commanding position, some suggest that another reason for Old Sarum's
occupation was due to the Earth Energies
that run through the site. Dowsers have demonstrated that a strong, powerful leyline runs from Stonehenge, through
Old Sarum, Salisbury Cathedral and on to Clearbury Ring. It is also said that
new Sarum's street layout mirrors these lines of energy.
Sir Norman Lockyer
(Astronomer-Royal), was the first 'respectable' person to recognize
geometry in the ancient English landscape. He noticed the geometric alignment
between Stonehenge, Grovely (Grove-ley) castle and Old Sarum (The site
where the original Salisbury cathedral was built). The three form an
equilateral triangle with sides 6 miles long, with the Stonehenge-Old Sarum
line continuing another 6 miles to the site of the present Salisbury Cathedral,
and beyond.
The ley passes
marginally to the East of the outstanding 404 foot spire which marks an
exceptionally powerful blind spring. On a number of occasions a fire alarm has
resulted from the appearance of dense clouds of flying ants swarming around the
spire, which were taken for smoke, attracted like certain other creatures to
blind springs. The spire also seems to attract the mysterious White Birds of
Salisbury Plain - large albatross-like birds, dazzlingly white, which are said
to appear whenever a bishop of Salisbury is dying. They were certainly seen in
1911, accurately foretelling the death of the then bishop.
Crop
Circles: Patterns suddenly appear in the corn fields of our countryside. Are
they simply an elaborate hoax or are they caused by U.F.O s, earth energies or
plasma vortexes?
Sonic phenomena are also associated with these
features. Crop circles in Wiltshire often occur around the heart of the
county in and around Stonehenge and Avebury, usually first appearing in April
and continuing into the summer months - dozens of geometric symbols, mandalas
and beautiful patterns appear in the farmers growing crop fields each and every
year.
A key research question for our study is
the degree to which these circles may be formed as a result of geological vibration from below ground.
Salisbury is on the edge of
an area called the Warminster Triangle,
an area associated with strange
sounds, celestial lights, crop
circles, electromagnetic effects, ghosts, black dogs, energy lines, ancient
sites, UFO landings and geophysical strata. Some of these effects may be
attributed to Aeolian Phenomena -
the activation of sound through the action of the wind or other environmental
forces - on natural materials.
Warminster's long
and controversial UFO history began early on Christmas Day, 1964. Arthur
Shuttlewood writes, in The Warminster
Mystery: “The air was brazenly filled with a menacing sound. Sudden
vibrations came overhead, chilling in intensity. They tore the quiet atmosphere
to raucous rags and descended upon her savagely. Shockwaves pounded at her
head, neck and shoulders." Other such "sonic attacks" which
occurred at around the same time in different locations around the town were
later reported.
Earth energy – Geomancy:
IMPORTANT NOTE: A committee decision is
proposed as to the degree to which NISG should associate itself with Geomantic
colleagues, given as they are to non-scientific notions of ‘mystery’ ‘spirituality’
and the ‘arcane’.
Claims have been made that henge locations near to Salisbury, such as
Stonehenge and Avebury were chosen by Neolithic peoples because of powerful
energies that exist deep within the landscape. Generations ago, our ability to
tune into our sixth sense was heightened - in the same way that today's
Aboriginals can find water deep undergound in the Australian bush or navigate
over long distances without map or compass. It has been argued that the Neolithic
temples, henges, burial mounds and long barrows of Salisbury Plain are
constructed at locations where these natural energies were more focused, and
easily detected by our predecesors, perhaps through sonic vibration. Did those who built Stonehenge, for example, chose
the area because they located a concentration of earth energy deep underground
together with an alignment with the sun, moon and stars, something that would
have been hugely significant to Neolithic man, in-tune, as he was, with the
natural cycle of the world?
The Rifles Museum in Salisbury, also known as The Wardrobe, also has
a long history of paranormal activity, with reports of books flying from
shelves, heavy footsteps from empty rooms and the apparition of a Grey Lady.
The house dates back to the 1540s. People have reported windows slamming shut
of their own accord. There has been a building on this land since the 13th
Century. Staff have seen the figure of a Cavalier within the building and there
have been reports of bright light anomalies and significant temperature drops
in sealed rooms, wailing noises and a
strange humming sound that emanates from nowhere.