Beckhampton

UK19890804_A

4 August 1989·Beckhampton, Wiltshire·beans

Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Beckhampton, and every formation the archive holds around it. 103 other formations sit on this exact point, because their sources named the same place and gave no finer position. The dashed ring is how precise the fix is (±2,000 m at place confidence), drawn at its true size.

Reported 4 August 1989 in beans at Beckhampton, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date: 4 August 1989 (day precision)
place: Beckhampton
Wiltshire
England
crop: beans
size: not recorded
recorded by: cc
images: 1 · 1 diagram
writing: nothing was written about this formation on any source

Also called

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

Where exactly

coordinate: 51.419235, -1.873717
how it was got: os open names
place, to within 2,000 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)

diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
cc	diagram no diagram published by cropcirclecenter (plain circle placeholder)	cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder	site default		575×415 32.4 KiB image/jpeg	image c782665e5c68	https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1989/198908.html

site

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credit

basis

caption

size

file

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diagram
no diagram published by cropcirclecenter (plain circle placeholder)

cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder

site default

575×415
32.4 KiB image/jpeg

image c782665e5c68

https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1989/198908.html

Date

4 August 1989, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by: cc: 4 August 1989
weekday: Friday, day 216 of the year, ISO week 31, summer
sun and moon: 44.1 days after the June solstice; moon waxing crescent (8% lit), 12.6 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: 51.419235, -1.873717 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map: OpenStreetMap

site	place	county	country	grid ref	what3words	fix
cc		Wiltshire	England			51.419235, -1.873717 place / os_open_names

site

place

county

country

grid ref

what3words

fix

Wiltshire

England

51.419235, -1.873717 place / os_open_names

Crop and size

crop: beans (cc: beans)
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 UK19890804_A

name Beckhampton

location

county Wiltshire

country England

date reported 1989-08-04

date precision day

crop beans

size

diameter (ft)

grid reference

what3words

map link

credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder

source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1989/198908.html

link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11

warnings no_formation_page

record cc/405a536ec4235…
raw record view: /formation/cc/405a536ec4235543e68881d7632647f75d85ba8a3110f308251222131a5adfe9 in the preview app

field	cc cropcirclecenter.com
id / slug	UK19890804_A
name	Beckhampton
location
county	Wiltshire
country	England
date reported	1989-08-04
date precision	day
crop	beans
size
diameter (ft)
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits	cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page	https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1989/198908.html
link to the entity	singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings	no_formation_page
record	cc/405a536ec4235… raw record view: `/formation/cc/405a536ec4235543e68881d7632647f75d85ba8a3110f308251222131a5adfe9` 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.

diagram	rotational symmetry	elements	rings	mirror	fill
cc c782665e (placeholder: digest)	≈ continuous (concentric circles)	1	1	0.996	1.0049

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 c782665e— 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: East Allington 2 August 1989, East Allington
next: Puckleworth 5 August 1989, Puckleworth
previous in UK: East Allington 2 August 1989
next in UK: Puckleworth 5 August 1989
same day: Pulham (Pulham)
within 7 days and 25 km: Beckhampton 28 July 1989, 0 m away, 7 day(s) apart · Beckhampton 28 July 1989, 0 m away, 7 day(s) apart · Beckhampton 9 August 1989, 0 m away, 5 day(s) apart · Beckhampton 9 August 1989, 0 m away, 5 day(s) apart · East Kennett 9 August 1989, 3.4 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Lockeridge 9 August 1989, 6.0 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Baydon 1 August 1989, 21.3 km away, 3 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

BeckhamptonAugust 1985
Beckhampton
0 m away, 1985-08

Beckhampton1 July 1987
Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-07-01 Beckhampton31 August 1987
Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-08-31

Beckhampton31 August 1987
Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-08-31

BeckhamptonAugust 1987
Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-08

Beckhampton5 September 1987
Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-09-05

same county and year: Killeen Mor 9 August 1989 · Killeen Mor 9 August 1989 · Avebury Trusloe 10 May 1989 · Avebury Trusloe 10 May 1989 · Silbury Hill 10 May 1989 · Heytesbury 15 May 1989 · Beckhampton 17 May 1989 · Beckhampton 17 May 1989 · Beckhampton 28 May 1989 · Beckhampton 28 May 1989 · Whiteparish 28 May 1989 · Avebury Trusloe 29 May 1989 · Bratton 29 May 1989 · Bratton 29 May 1989 · Scratchbury Hill 2 June 1989 · Calstone Wellington 3 June 1989 · Heytesbury 4 June 1989 · Heytesbury 4 June 1989 · Heytesbury 4 June 1989 · Heytesbury 4 June 1989 and 48 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/UK19890804_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests: entity 25d6bafb6ab7 · images afe2570b1c43 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo feb7b31fdec3