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I am very interested to see what results other people can get - plus different people have different insights. We might find out something else altogether. Please send me your videos!

So, where do you put the voltmeter? There seem to be various possibilities. The dolmen which produced the most electricity, was one we visited in Krasnodar, Russia. There was a very obvious socket-type hole in a stone right next to the dolmen.



This is the dolmen in question, with Vita the Vedic singer standing in front of it. To the left you can see the horizontal stone where I found the "socket". Of course, without excavation we cannot see exactly how this is connected to the main structure.



Bottom left, the socket hole.

Close-up.

Most dolmen seem to have holes, indentations and various markings. Sometimes they are on the front, sometimes elsewhere. If you can't find a hole there are other options. The dolmen might be missing some stones, have been reconstructed, or just have weathered badly.

All is not lost! From my experiments to date, it seems that the best area to try, if you cannot find an obvious hole, is what I refer to as the armpit(!). Where the supporting stone meets the top slab, if you can push your voltmeter probes between the two, you are most likely to get a reading.

Interestingly, this is the same location as the holes on the T stones at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. Each has a "socket" on as shown below. Sadly, if you actually visit Gobekli Tepe, your chances of getting anywhere near a T stone with a voltmeter are nil. Most of it is behind barbed wire and you will need to bring binoculars if you want to see anything much.



Obviously the next step is to make some noise inside the dolmen... and see what happens! This is easier to do if there are two of you, or a small group. Specially if you are planning to film it. To date, dolmen have responded to - my own voice, music from my laptop.... and best of all, the Vedic chanting, which has so far produced the best results. However, none of these are what I would call loud, and it seems logical that the more volume is put in, the more electricity is produced.

Some dolmen are better preserved than others. The ones I saw in Russia in the Krasnodar region are very well preserved indeed. However, one I visited in Turkey was more like those in the UK. It had no sound hole as such. I was still able to get a reading in the "armpit". LOL

It seems likely (to me) that gaps between stones, as we see in many dolmen in the British isles, were filled in with a sort of dry stone walling, as has been done in Table des Marchand, in France. This keeps the sound in the sound chamber. Many dolmen are part buried, too, so the soil around it also helps form the walls.



Ballykeel dolmen in Ireland, with large gaps between the stones.

Table des Marchand in France, which has been restored and a type of brick used to dry stone wall between the megaliths.