Interesting: Glasgow's Sacred Geometry

This morning I received an article from The Bell, a relatively new online publication featuring local news, and came across an interesting article, which I will reproduce below (abridged):

'I began to read Glasgow’s Secret Geometry out of politeness more than anything else, but found myself hooked. Here Bell was describing a lifelong search for Glasgow’s ‘Network of Aligned Sites’. I immediately decided I had to go and see these sacred places for myself. Then in October 2001, a short while after our brief friendship, Bell passed away aged 65.

When he’d first published the book in 1984, Bell had worried that the ideas contained within might not survive a generation. “Unless people discuss the idea, visit the sites, and tell their children about them, the Glasgow Network of Aligned Sites could be forgotten before it is properly understood. Don’t let this happen,” he forewarned.

First published over four decades ago, Secret Geometry outlines the field archaeologist’s thesis that the city’s ancient places, such as churches and burial mounds, sit in alignment on what is popularly known as ley lines, crisscrossing the modern city and its environs. Bell identified 70 of these sites stretching across this part of Strathclyde, from Dumbarton Rock in the west to the Bar Hill Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall in the east.

Bell had been inspired by the work of an amateur archeologist named Alfred Watkins a century ago, who believed ley lines were trade routes connecting settlements in the pre-historic period. Ancient sites, such as the Devil’s Plantation, sat on higher ground, helping travellers find their way. Leys are ancient desire lines if you will, drawing a path directly on the map from one point to another, at odds with those drivers on the orbital going the long way round.'

The full articloe can be found at The Bell: https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk/