South Wales 2011 : Part 3 – The Samson Stone and the Stone Museum

In this third part of our South Wales trip I talk about our visit to a museum of stones, and then go on to discuss the amazing findings at the Samson Stone – a standing stone linked in to a very ancient network of energies related to the myths surrounding King Arthur. You can also watch a video of Kal dowsing the stone, and I discuss my latest theory on the energy flows of standing stones. First, however, we visit a museum of petrified crosses…

Realising that we were quite a way west of our starting point of Chepstow and that we may need to begin to work our way back, we looked on the map for nearby locations that were large enough to get a tourist symbol, and we identified something near to Port Talbot that sounded interesting – The Stone Museum, Margam, Neath Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, South Wales. [info]. It might be good, it might be rubbish – but at least it was on the way back, and there seemed little else within thirty miles of where we were and in the right direction. Off we went.

When we arrived at Margam Abbey we found that we had just missed the lunch sitting for the only restaurant within miles. And we were starving. However, being troopers and dedicated to the cause we put aside hunger and turned our attentions to getting hold of the key to get into the Stone Museum. A notice on the door said that if it was locked we should ask at the restaurant. Cruel, considering our hunger levels. We waited while the chef finished what she was doing, and then she let us into the museum unattended. Great! We could dowse to our hearts content!

We scanned the open-plan museum and realised that the “stones” were all carved crosses that had been gathered from the local vicinity – within about a thirty mile radius of Margam. The carved crosses dated from Celtic to Christian, and some smaller broken bits of stones that had no labels. Kal inspected upstairs while I took some photographs but reported that there was nothing to see on the upper level, so we concentrated on the lower floor’s artefacts.

Always the way

Isn’t it always the way? We quickly found that the only stones of energetic interest were those not labelled?! There was a small remnant of one of the stones that the museum had literally been built around, and that had no information about it at all. The integral stone was originally part of the building that had been there before the abbey next door, we dowsed. It was the strongest, most energetic stone in the whole collection. No information plaque or anything to explain it. The only other stone in the collection that had any energy in it at all was the broken corner of some carving that was mounted on a wall, again without any explanation or date at all.

We were rapidly becoming quite disinterested in the rest of the stones. None of them had retained any energies, if they had any to begin with. When I dowsed whether there was any information I could learn from any of the stones the dowsing rods indicated only one stone in the whole collection would be worth looking at, so I went to examine it.

The stone was labelled as a Celtic Sun Wheel – a common pagan symbol – but the information plaque said that the two figures seen at the base of the carving were St John and The Virgin Mary. I dowsed to confirm this, but the rods swung to a distinct negative on this. It would seem they were something else! Of course, it would be very difficult to know exactly what they were, so I won’t hazard a guess. But then I also wouldn’t go around stating to everyone in public that they were St John and Mary! One reference I could find to these two figures appearing together was the Florentine artists of the 15th Century who used to depict the two, but that seems a tenuous connection to South Wales in the early Christian era!

I felt that the figures represented on this cross were something for me to think about. The information I was being given, I felt, was that the interpretations given by scholars to account for a lot of pre-Christian symbols and figures are something that I ought to consider for myself, not just to take them at face value and perhaps dismiss them as something outside of my interest, when in fact they could well be remnants from a society that was far closer to megalith-builders than the subsequent Christian culture.

Our interest rapidly waning and our hunger mounting we pressed on. Now Kal had seen a standing stone on the map that seemed to be near civilisation – perhaps we could grab some food on the run and visit the standing stone? Only five minutes later we were parking on the B4283 and heading across a recently-harvested field towards the lone stone.

The Samson Stone [map]

The Samson Stone, or Tyn’r y selar, was very much Kal’s site. As we approached it I began to react to the strong male/sun energy that it was emitting. I put up some energetic protection that would allow me to work within its confines without too much detrimental effect, otherwise I think I would have got a headache very quickly, and possibly felt a bit ill. Kal, on the other hand, bounced to the stone and hugged it frequently. He couldn’t move far away from it – it was like he was magnetised to its presence! I hated every minute in that field.

My current standing stone theory

Rather than stand about moaning I decided to use the time to verify the theory I had been working on about the way that standing stones have been constructed and aligned. I began to dowse to find the energy lines that came into and out of the stone, and then I got Kal to verify them. By the time he had done so several times I was happy that the stone fitted right into my general theory of the energy flows of these stones, which is this:-

• this type of standing stone has a two broad flat sides, one sharp edge and one blunt edge
• the stone is erected in the flow of an energy ley (a combination of male and female currents flowing alongside each other in parallel)
• the stone seems to be the same width as the energy ley (although whether the energy is conforming to the flow, or the flow is conforming to the stone is debatable)
• a male energy line is being emitted from the sharp edge of the stone
• a female spiral is emerging from the blunt end of the stone
• the male energy flow is directed towards some nearby interconnected Neolithic site of importance
• the energy transformation (male+female -> male / female) is achieved by the placement of the stone either on fractured geology, or above underground running water

The Samson Stone’s male energy flow is directed towards the ancient hillfort of Mynydd-Y-Gaer. Mynnyd-y-Gaer [map] is the reputed burial place of Uther Pendragon, father of the legendary King Arthur, or possibly of Arthur himself. Seems as though the stone is there to continue to send Uther the male power needed to keep his spirit remembered by those still living? Well, that’s my current thinking, anyway. Purpose it always so much more difficult to dowse than the evidence of the energy flows themselves, yet this stone was erected and angled to produce a male energy flow towards this ‘hillfort’ for some special reason. This is not an arbitrary erection, if you’ll pardon the phrase!

We found that in this case the energy was being transmuted by underground water flows (a ‘blind spring’ as our fellow dowsers call it), and that the energy ley was being attracted into the stone, rather than the stone being placed upon an existing energy ley. You can watch Kal dowsing the various energies of the stone in this video clip:

httpv://youtu.be/INzrx0VxuFI

The attraction of the male

One of the unusual aspects of the male energy flowing out of the stone (not that the link with Mynydd-y-Gaer wasn’t unusual enough!) is that it flows across the M4 motorway just a few hundred yards away across the adjacent field. Of course this adds to the “attractiveness” of the site – the noise of the passing cars, the muddy field, open to the howling winds, and the line of attractive tall electricity pylons nearby. It’s a winner on the glamour stakes this site – NOT!

I was just in the process of posing a rhetorical question to Kal about the possibility of there being more accidents at the point where the male line crossed the motorway, and we were busy looking at the exact crossing point, when a car pulled off the main carriageway and onto the hard shoulder – that space reserved for cars in trouble on motorways.  We stared in amazement as people got out of the car, looked at something around the car, and then got back in and pulled back into the main flow of traffic. What the heck had just happened there? Why had they pulled over at exactly that crossing point where the male energy runs across the motorway? Very odd. One of those weird coincidences that make your hair stand on end.

In the final part of this story I will tell you about our visit to a wonderful ancient megalithic site near Cardiff, and a mysterious pit that has archaeologists guessing, but whose purpose dowsing has revealed to us.

Gwas.