Oliver's Castle
UK19960811_A11 August 1996·Oliver's Castle, Wiltshire·wheat
Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.
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Oliver's Castle (Oliver's Castle)(lp, tier C, score 0.75, rule adjacent_day, pair 8090e04a)
date 1996-08-11 vs 1996-08-10 (delta +1 d); name tokens shared: olivers, castle; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Reported 11 August 1996 in wheat at Oliver's Castle, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 11 August 1996 (day precision)
- place
- Oliver's Castle
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 318 ft (96.9 m) across
as written: 97 m | 318 ft - recorded by
- cc
- images
- 1 on the record, 1 attached · 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
- 51.307666, -1.981841
- how it was got
- county centroid
county, to within 33,843 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, 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 44.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image bb329c6f9aac | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199608.html |
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.
Olivers Castle Devizes, Wiltshire | 11th August 1996 | Wheat OH 35mm Neg Scan
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 11 August 1996 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair edf40b027e61 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image olivers-castle-devizes-wiltshire-11th-august-1996-wheat-oh-35mm-neg-scan
- date 1996-08-11 vs 1996-08-11 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: olivers, castle
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19960811_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Olivers Castle Devizes, Wiltshire | 11th August 1996 | Wheat OH 35mm Neg Scan | 800×571 987.5 KiB image/jpeg |
image 365e8faa7157 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1996-crop-circles |
Date
11 August 1996, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 11 August 1996
- weekday
- Sunday, day 224 of the year, ISO week 32, summer
- sun and moon
- 42.3 days before the September equinox; moon waning crescent (7% lit), 12.1 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
- 51.307666, -1.981841 — county, ±33,843 m, by county_centroid, from the cc record
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | Wiltshire | England | 51.307666, -1.981841 county / county_centroid |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- diameter
- 318 ft (96.9 m)
- size as written
- 97 m | 318 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 | UK19960811_A |
| name | Oliver's Castle |
| location | |
| county | Wiltshire |
| country | England |
| date reported | 1996-08-11 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | 97 m | 318 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 318 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199608.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/029376e5324ae… raw record view: /formation/cc/029376e5324ae1cfeee10d3c34f9562f64fb2d0875d3cdd37d5b36b0c52d8294 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 bb329c6f | ≈ 6-fold score 0.942 | 1 | 1 | 0.989 | 0.2267 |
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 bb329c6f— 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
- Oliver's Castle 10 August 1996, Oliver's Castle
- next
- Klosseterburen 12 August 1996, Klosseterburen
- previous in UK
- Oliver's Castle 10 August 1996
- next in UK
- Callington 12 August 1996
- same day
- Hoek (Hoek) · Kampen (Kampen) · Vaesrade Nuth (Vaesrade Nuth)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- none, or this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better, so nothing can be called near it
- 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
- 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- 20260915T030325Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- 8090e04af9a1c493cc84939ede64ef2b48ae9395c4377f089f58f7f8acaaeff7
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19960811_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity e89a3e36a5a3 · images ace29d14311b · attachments 50e30d8180c7 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo d46be93a9652