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UK19720815_A ·The 1972 season ·Wiltshire, England

Starr Hill

18 August 1972·Starr Hill, Wiltshire·wheat

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Plate — where it was reported, drawn from the archive's own coordinate every image →

Reported 18 August 1972 in wheat at Starr Hill, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
18 August 1972 day precision
place
Starr Hill, Wiltshire, England no other name or place string on any source record · name from the cropcirclecenter.com name
crop
wheat
size
not recorded
recorded by
cc · cropcirclecenter.com
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source

Where exactly

coordinate
51.307666, -1.981841
how it was got
county centroid — county, to within 33,843 m, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap

No source publishes a coordinate for any formation in this archive. Every coordinate here is derived from the place name a source printed, and this page says how precise that makes it rather than rounding it away.

Images

1 image(s) on this formation's own source records. Click a tile for the full image; the bytes are fetched when you ask for them and are not stored in this page.

Diagrams (1)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
cc
same file as tt
diagram
no diagram published by cropcirclecenter (“no diagram” tile)
cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
66.1 KiB image/jpeg
image 3461dff5df5d https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1972/197208.html

Date

18 August 1972, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 18 August 1972
weekday
Friday, day 231 of the year, ISO week 33, summer
sun and moon
35.4 days before the September equinox; moon waxing gibbous (64% lit), 6.3 days before the full moon (computed at 12:00 UTC; a reported date is a discovery date, not a creation date)

Place

What each source printed, and the coordinate derived from it. No source in this archive publishes a coordinate of its own.

coordinate
51.307666, -1.981841 — county, ±33,843 m, by county_centroid, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWiltshireEngland 51.307666, -1.981841 county / county_centroid

Crop and size

crop
wheat (cc: wheat)
diameter
not recorded by any source
size as written
not recorded

Source records

What each source published, side by side. A row whose values differ across the sources is marked: the archive prints the disagreement rather than choosing a winner.

field cc cropcirclecenter.com
id / slug UK19720815_A
name Starr Hill
location
county Wiltshire
country England
date reported 1972-08-18
date precision day
crop wheat
size
diameter (ft)
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1972/197208.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/7e3d7f9727941…
raw record view: /formation/cc/7e3d7f97279419e5757c19a0b6d5b4beb3cfaae2ac8b9af1881b312c8080b6aa in the preview app

Texts

no text documents in the archive for this formation

Claims about this formation

no claim was extracted from a text about this formation

Geometry

1 diagram file(s) on this page, of which 1 is a shared cropcirclecenter placeholder rather than a drawing of this formation. measured from the diagram itself, and experimental: the extractor's rotational order is right on 88.8 % of a 200-diagram hand-labelled set against a gate of 90 %, so read a number here beside the picture rather than instead of it.

diagramrotational symmetryelementsringsmirrorfill
cc 3461dff5 (placeholder: digest) ≈ 2-fold score 0.906 4 3 0.853 0.3434

Experimental, and marked ≈ wherever it appears. These numbers are read off a drawing, not off the field: the extractor's rotational order agrees with a hand-labelled set on 88.8 per cent of 200 diagrams against a gate of 90 per cent, its element count is within one on 97.5 per cent, and its ring count is not calibrated at all. Nothing in the analysis tree is derived from the rotational order while that gate is unmet.

Diagrams that look like these: cc 3461dff5— the nearest by perceptual hash. The whole archive is browsable by shape in the shape section, and this formation's own diagrams go straight into that grid: show them in the grid.

Neighbours

In time

previous
Warminster 18 July 1972, Warminster
next
Greensburg 14 September 1972, Greensburg
previous in UK
Warminster 18 July 1972
next in UK
UK19731333_A 1973
same day
no other formation is dated this day
within 7 days and 25 km
none, or this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better, so nothing can be called near it

same county and year
Warminster 18 July 1972 · Bratton 1972 · Starr Hill 1972

Provenance

entity built at
2026-09-11T19:20:39Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
index run ids
none
reviews applied
none
open queue pairs
none
entity record
index/formations/UK19720815_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity f5b16a131796 · images cde4d9495e39 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 5fd02f8ce5f2