Cley Hill

UK19960720_C

20 July 1996·Cley Hill, Wiltshire

Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Cley Hill, and every formation the archive holds around it. 6 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 20 July 1996 at Cley Hill, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date: 20 July 1996 (day precision)
place: Cley Hill
Wiltshire
England
crop: not recorded by any source
size: 23 ft (7.0 m) across
as written: 7 m | 23 ft
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: 51.202515, -2.232167
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/1996/199607.html

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credit

basis

caption

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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/1996/199607.html

Date

20 July 1996, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by: cc: 20 July 1996
weekday: Saturday, day 202 of the year, ISO week 29, summer
sun and moon: 29.4 days after the June solstice; moon waxing crescent (20% lit), 9.9 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: 51.202515, -2.232167 — 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			51.202515, -2.232167 place / os_open_names

site

place

county

country

grid ref

what3words

fix

Wiltshire

England

51.202515, -2.232167 place / os_open_names

Crop and size

crop: not recorded (cc: —)
diameter: 23 ft (7.0 m)
size as written: 7 m | 23 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 UK19960720_C

name Cley Hill

location

county Wiltshire

country England

date reported 1996-07-20

date precision day

crop

size 7 m | 23 ft

diameter (ft) 23

grid reference

what3words

map link

credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder

source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199607.html

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

warnings no_formation_page

record cc/5ecc6a3970e47…
raw record view: /formation/cc/5ecc6a3970e4751a29b4d24daf036ceac32b4545cdedfa102ffb9104922b1e6e in the preview app

field	cc cropcirclecenter.com
id / slug	UK19960720_C
name	Cley Hill
location
county	Wiltshire
country	England
date reported	1996-07-20
date precision	day
crop
size	7 m \| 23 ft
diameter (ft)	23
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits	cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page	https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199607.html
link to the entity	singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings	no_formation_page
record	cc/5ecc6a3970e47… raw record view: `/formation/cc/5ecc6a3970e4751a29b4d24daf036ceac32b4545cdedfa102ffb9104922b1e6e` 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: Graauw 19 July 1996, Graauw
next: Birmingham 21 July 1996, Birmingham
previous in UK: Woodborough Hill 18 July 1996
next in UK: Birmingham 21 July 1996
same day: Bayston Hill (Bayston Hill) · Bealing (Bealing) · Roundway Devizes (Roundway Devizes) · Roundway Devizes (Roundway Devizes) · Ruscombe (Ruscombe) · Warminster (Warminster) · Washington (Washington)
within 7 days and 25 km: Warminster 20 July 1996, 3.6 km away, 0 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

Cley Hill14 July 1991
Cley Hill
0 m away, 1991-07-14

Cley Hill13 July 1997
Cley Hill
0 m away, 1997-07-13

Cley Hill14 July 1997
Cley Hill
0 m away, 1997-07-14

Cley HillAugust 1997
Cley Hill
0 m away, 1997-08

Cley Hill9 July 2010
Cley Hill
0 m away, 2010-07-09

Cley Hill24 July 2015
Cley Hill
0 m away, 2015-07-24

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 · Alton Barnes 17 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 · Roundway Devizes 20 July 1996 and 22 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/UK19960720_C.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests: entity e9e2902b6c06 · images afe2570b1c43 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo a137a5133fb2