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Etchilhampton

UK19960729_A

29 July 1996·Etchilhampton, Wiltshire·wheat

Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.

  • tt/b4ce9dded70b017fabea929b23d2390bb10b94563e821a43b3528e5bfc6d10d5(tt, tier C, score 0.80, rule attach_ambiguous, pair 08e97ddd)
    attachment: tt archive_image etchilhampton-wiltshire-29th-july-1996-wheat-oh-35mm-neg-scan; date 1996-07-29 vs 1996-07-29 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: etchilhampton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id); crop wheat == wheat; the photograph's date and place fit 2 entities (UK19960729_A, UK19960729_B); accepting one attaches it there and leaves the others unattached, so the competitors need no rejection
  • tt/3881a7d03020f733eec05f4435aad3a963a6238f7adce06f94c74cb8dd493723(tt, tier C, score 0.80, rule attach_ambiguous, pair 3ebf6a24)
    attachment: tt archive_image etchilhampton-wiltshire-29th-july-1996-wheat-p-35mm-neg-scan; date 1996-07-29 vs 1996-07-29 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: etchilhampton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id); crop wheat == wheat; the photograph's date and place fit 2 entities (UK19960729_A, UK19960729_B); accepting one attaches it there and leaves the others unattached, so the competitors need no rejection
  • tt/75bb9cae0aa1abeec7278511b40726f9d6be2c342ac82cfc05d608ba7c8e0def(tt, tier C, score 0.80, rule attach_ambiguous, pair 7fc2716a)
    attachment: tt archive_image etchilhampton-wiltshire-29th-july-1996-wheat-p2-35mm-neg-scan; date 1996-07-29 vs 1996-07-29 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: etchilhampton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id); crop wheat == wheat; the photograph's date and place fit 2 entities (UK19960729_A, UK19960729_B); accepting one attaches it there and leaves the others unattached, so the competitors need no rejection
cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder (site default) · diagram published by cropcirclecenter.com.

Reported 29 July 1996 in wheat at Etchilhampton, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
29 July 1996 (day precision)
place
Etchilhampton
Wiltshire
England
crop
wheat
size
4222 ft (1286.9 m) across
as written: 1287 m | 4222 ft
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
1287 m across100 m

Also called

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

Where exactly

coordinate
51.341768, -1.934528
how it was got
os open names
place, to within 2,000 m, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
Adam's GraveAveburyCasterley CampMarden Henge5 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
36.3 KiB image/jpeg
image 1b024968df60 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199607.html

Date

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

reported by
cc: 29 July 1996
weekday
Monday, day 211 of the year, ISO week 31, summer
sun and moon
38.4 days after the June solstice; moon waxing gibbous (98% lit), 0.9 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
51.341768, -1.934528 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWiltshireEngland 51.341768, -1.934528 place / os_open_names

Crop and size

crop
wheat (cc: wheat)
diameter
4222 ft (1286.9 m)
size as written
1287 m | 4222 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 UK19960729_A
name Etchilhampton
location
county Wiltshire
country England
date reported 1996-07-29
date precision day
crop wheat
size 1287 m | 4222 ft
diameter (ft) 4222
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/7f6421f6456cb…
raw record view: /formation/cc/7f6421f6456cbbd08cc41cc948f8f2125d95b36480b0def32a1eb35c76ce11a1 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 1b024968 ≈ continuous (concentric circles) 2 0 0.978 0.0095

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 1b024968— 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
Colchester 28 July 1996, Colchester
next
Tricht 30 July 1996, Tricht
previous in UK
Colchester 28 July 1996
next in UK
Olivers Battery 30 July 1996
same day
Bystrany (Bystrany) · Heumen (Heumen) · Netersel (Netersel) · Etchilhampton (Etchilhampton) · Windmill Hill (Windmill Hill)
within 7 days and 25 km
Etchilhampton 29 July 1996, 0 m away, 0 day(s) apart · Avebury 22 July 1996, 11.1 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Windmill Hill 29 July 1996, 24.2 km away, 0 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

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 · Cley Hill 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
08e97ddd1c13793659e277fd8feaf3871e16491098cdd2582d9a4e351439b1dc, 3ebf6a24ae4ec335478c76be7e386db94a685fca5a4081fe5c64774fc3a586e0, 7fc2716aa7a63519dbc720711de528bc4df5b3851e2eb2aedb1a99482eefe5cb
entity record
index/formations/UK19960729_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity ddf1d50546b0 · images 0e9b89a78393 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 5525b6fdb2d5