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This site is a Library of documented Mitchell Lines.

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Robert Mitchell, a retired solicitor, started Dowsing in 2004.
Having always lived in a part of the United Kingdom that had an awful lot of "Norman" churches,

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having realised that, when they were built,

there was a tremendous amount of green space and only very small villages.

the BURNING QUESTION soon developed:

Why did they put that church there, when they could have put it anywhere.

He began Dowsing and was soon astonished to find that

there were lines of places where his wires crossed and that

those lines often coincided with significant parts of a church.

To avoid any association with other names,

which were often used by a user to mean what I mean them to mean

 names riddled with conjecture

he called these lines of places MITCHELL LINES

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Robert began to painstakingly to map and document these lines.

Fascinated, Robert also documented other old sites,  which he happened to visit when on holiday.

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This is some of his work and is planned to be expanded with more

it takes surprising time to amend carefully written up field notes into a useful publishable form

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Robert does not understand or make a judgement about

 what these lines are or how they are created.

All he is doing is documenting, with remarkable accuracy,
the location of these lines and their relationship with the building.

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When these churches began the people lived a rural life and were much more

attuned to the  whatever it is  that causes his wires to cross and

thus subconsciously the builders would have

felt the existence of the Line(s) and

chosen to relate their significant places to the Line(s) which are now identified when his wires cross.

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One day Robert discovered what happened after Augustine came, as a missionary, to the Saxon King of Kent.

After a successful first year, Augustine wrote to ask his abbot, then also the Pope, where his new converts should meet.

The Pope told him to use the places where the people had hitherto met for pagan rites.

Thus these Norman churches are in significant places earlier chosen for pagan rites.

The Saxon churches were wooden and replaced in stone by the Normans.

 

So the question remained why there ........