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Bratton Castle

UK19870822_A

22 August 1987·Bratton Castle, Wiltshire·wheat

cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder (site default) · diagram published by cropcirclecenter.com.

Reported 22 August 1987 in wheat at Bratton Castle, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
22 August 1987 (day precision)
place
Bratton Castle
Wiltshire
England
crop
wheat
size
168 ft (51.2 m) across
as written: 51 m | 168 ft
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
51 m across100 m

Also called

Nothing else. No other name or place string appears on any source record for this formation.

Where exactly

coordinate
51.270568, -2.123756
how it was got
os open names
place, to within 2,000 m, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
Cley HillWestbury White Horse5 km

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 diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
36.0 KiB image/jpeg
image 59689ae42736 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1987/198708.html

Date

22 August 1987, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 22 August 1987
weekday
Saturday, day 234 of the year, ISO week 34, summer
sun and moon
32.1 days before the September equinox; moon waning crescent (4% lit), 13.1 days after 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
51.270568, -2.123756 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWiltshireEngland 51.270568, -2.123756 place / os_open_names

Crop and size

crop
wheat (cc: wheat)
diameter
168 ft (51.2 m)
size as written
51 m | 168 ft

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 UK19870822_A
name Bratton Castle
location
county Wiltshire
country England
date reported 1987-08-22
date precision day
crop wheat
size 51 m | 168 ft
diameter (ft) 168
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1987/198708.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/ba84bf5a7e1d8…
raw record view: /formation/cc/ba84bf5a7e1d8c8f7363f83e78d4496456f94fbe219935f90cdbd4e2ad4c9493 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. 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 59689ae4 ≈ 4-fold score 0.904 5 1 0.998 0.1602

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 59689ae4— 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
Winterbourne Stoke 21 August 1987, Winterbourne Stoke
next
Chilcomb 29 August 1987, Chilcomb
previous in UK
Winterbourne Stoke 21 August 1987
next in UK
Chilcomb 29 August 1987
same day
Westbury (Westbury)
within 7 days and 25 km
Bratton Castle 15 August 1987, 0 m away, 7 day(s) apart · Westbury 22 August 1987, 4.3 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Little Cheverell 20 August 1987, 7.7 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Little Cheverell 21 August 1987, 7.7 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Winterbourne Stoke 21 August 1987, 19.8 km away, 1 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

same county and year
Whiteparish 1 June 1987 · Beckhampton 1 July 1987 · Little Cheverell 1 July 1987 · Bratton Castle 29 July 1987 · Westbury 2 August 1987 · Westbury 3 August 1987 · Bratton 4 August 1987 · Bratton Castle 4 August 1987 · Bratton Castle 6 August 1987 · Upton Scudamore 7 August 1987 · Westbury 7 August 1987 · Bratton Castle 8 August 1987 · Bratton Castle 8 August 1987 · Norton Bavant 8 August 1987 · Westbury 12 August 1987 · Bratton Castle 15 August 1987 · Little Cheverell 20 August 1987 · Little Cheverell 21 August 1987 · Winterbourne Stoke 21 August 1987 · Westbury 22 August 1987 and 13 more

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/UK19870822_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 3b0232720943 · images fed184f7acea · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 3211a3ba5ce0