This was a most interesting thread.

Gary Vines has more interest than most as I seem to recall him dowsing for
sites at my place with Liz Wade (this was after our experience with a
dowser, the Bent Wire Lady, at the Lake Condah Dormitory) in the early
1980's!

However what is even more interesting is the form of the debate which seems
to have surprised some Scientific Archaeologists but should not have if
their interest in the scientific method had extended to Thomas Kuhn and
other writers on how science actually gets done.

Of course Industrial Archaeologists use bent steel joists!

Iain Stuart
Principal, Archaeology and Heritage Management
HLA-Envirosciences Pty. Ltd.