Alton Barnes
UK19960617_A17 June 1996·Alton Barnes, Wiltshire·barley
Reported 17 June 1996 in barley at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 17 June 1996 (day precision)
- place
- Alton Barnes
Wiltshire
England - crop
- barley
- size
- 646 ft (196.9 m) across
as written: 197 m | 646 ft - recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 3 on the record, 1 attached · 1 diagram, 2 other
- 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
- 51.357372, -1.850463
- 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
3 image(s) on this formation's own source records, and 1 more on 1 attached record(s) below. 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 46.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image 9b25194fcc38 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199606.html |
Photographs (2)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | The East Field 'DNA double helix' formation. 648' long and 89 circles. | 620×394 29.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 1128de86c6ee | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1996/uk1996ak.shtml |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | The East Field 'DNA double helix' formation. 648' long and 89 circles. (photo 2) | 620×401 28.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image 67cde29a0a7e | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1996/uk1996ak.shtml |
Attached photographs (1)
inferred link These pictures did not come with a source record of this formation. Each one is a single-photograph archive entry whose own date and place the index matched to this formation; nothing about the formation itself comes from them. The rule, the score and the evidence are printed with each record so the link can be checked, and the credit stays with the photograph.
East Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 17th June 1996 | Barley 35mm Neg Scan
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 17 June 1996 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 01d8fa1d0fca · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image east-field-alton-barnes-wiltshire-17th-june-1996-barley-35mm-neg-scan
- date 1996-06-17 vs 1996-06-17 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: alton, barnes
- alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A)
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop barley == barley
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19960617_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | East Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 17th June 1996 | Barley 35mm Neg Scan | 800×527 663.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image 2f77a653b88b | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1996-crop-circles |
Date
17 June 1996, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 17 June 1996 lp: 17 June 1996
- weekday
- Monday, day 169 of the year, ISO week 25, summer
- sun and moon
- 3.6 days before the June solstice; moon waxing crescent (2% lit), 13.7 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
- 51.357372, -1.850463 — 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 | 51.357372, -1.850463 place / os_open_names | |||
| lp | Alton Barnes | Wiltshire | United Kingdom | none |
Crop and size
- crop
- barley (cc: barley, lp: —)
- diameter
- 646 ft (196.9 m)
- size as written
- 197 m | 646 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 | lp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk |
|---|---|---|
| id / slug differs | UK19960617_A | alton-barnes-1996 |
| name | Alton Barnes | Alton Barnes |
| location | Alton Barnes | |
| county | Wiltshire | Wiltshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 1996-06-17 | 1996-06-17 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | barley | |
| size | 197 m | 646 ft | |
| diameter (ft) | 646 | |
| grid reference | ||
| what3words | ||
| map link | ||
| credits differs | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | Lucy Pringle |
| source page differs | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199606.html | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1996/uk1996ak.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1996-06-17 vs 1996-06-17 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: alton, barnes; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1996-06-17 vs 1996-06-17 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: alton, barnes; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | no_formation_page | none |
| record | cc/b1504367fce25… raw record view: /formation/cc/b1504367fce2575115c017c081b033e6c2d9b93c56f37be76285b7fd66258418 in the preview app |
lp/b2f28f8f8a91c… raw record view: /formation/lp/b2f28f8f8a91ca40d91fb4fef419ad21a5c2da6f47ea98f49955468f9a75c770 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.
| diagram | rotational symmetry | elements | rings | mirror | fill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc 9b25194f | ≈ 2-fold score 0.969 | 9 | 0 | 0.872 | 0.0786 |
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 9b25194f— 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
- Southport 16 June 1996, Southport
- next
- Garsington 19 June 1996, Garsington
- previous in UK
- Southport 16 June 1996
- next in UK
- Garsington 19 June 1996
- same day
- no other formation is dated this day
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Cherhill 21 June 1996, 10.6 km away, 4 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1970
Alton Barnes10 September 1988Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1988-09-10
Alton Barnes12 July 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-07-12
Alton BarnesAugust 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-08 Alton Barnes18 April 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-04-18
Alton Barnes2 July 1991Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-07-02
- same county and year
- Avebury 6 August 1996 · Avebury 5 August 1996 · Devizes 1 June 1996 · Silbury Hill 1 June 1996 · Silbury Hill 1 June 1996 · Cherhill 21 June 1996 · Alton Barnes 27 June 1996 · Devizes June 1996 · Cherhill July 1996 · Ludgershall 1 July 1996 · Stonehenge 7 July 1996 · East Kennett 11 July 1996 · East Kennett 13 July 1996 · West Overton 13 July 1996 · Everleigh 15 July 1996 · UK19960715_C 15 July 1996 · Roundway Devizes 16 July 1996 · Woodborough Hill 18 July 1996 · Cley Hill 20 July 1996 · Roundway Devizes 20 July 1996 and 22 more
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-15T21:14:17Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- 20260915T030325Z-index-build, 20260915T211417Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19960617_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity c03f5bed4f24 · images e54ef0009bf2 · attachments 8b9f83af769c · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo a6b008775dd9