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Barbury Castle

UK19970420_A

20 April 1997·Barbury Castle, Wiltshire·oilseed rape

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

  • Barbury Castle (Barbury Castle)(lp, tier C, score 0.75, rule adjacent_day, pair c98b29ee)
    date 1997-04-20 vs 1997-04-19 (delta +1 d); name tokens shared: barbury, castle; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder (site default) · diagram published by cropcirclecenter.com.

Reported 20 April 1997 in oilseed rape at Barbury Castle, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
20 April 1997 (day precision)
place
Barbury Castle
Wiltshire
England
crop
oilseed rape
size
180 ft (54.9 m) across
as written: 55 m | 180 ft
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
55 m across100 m

Also called

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

Where exactly

coordinate
51.485268, -1.786046
how it was got
os open names
place, to within 2,000 m, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
AveburyBarbury CastleLiddington Castle5 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
52.6 KiB image/jpeg
image e6eec9d491d0 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199704.html

Date

20 April 1997, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 20 April 1997
weekday
Sunday, day 110 of the year, ISO week 16, spring
sun and moon
30.9 days after the March equinox; moon waxing gibbous (95% lit), 2.4 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
51.485268, -1.786046 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWiltshireEngland 51.485268, -1.786046 place / os_open_names

Crop and size

crop
oilseed rape (cc: oilseed rape)
diameter
180 ft (54.9 m)
size as written
55 m | 180 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 UK19970420_A
name Barbury Castle
location
county Wiltshire
country England
date reported 1997-04-20
date precision day
crop oilseed rape
size 55 m | 180 ft
diameter (ft) 180
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199704.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/1b1cbf0122b0a…
raw record view: /formation/cc/1b1cbf0122b0ad89f2bad8bf0e31ab497aaaf57394a48ec03e09e7a0d41be5cb 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 e6eec9d4 ≈ 6-fold score 0.896 2 2 0.827 0.5504

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 e6eec9d4— 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
Barbury Castle 19 April 1997, Barbury Castle
next
Littlebury Greene 22 April 1997, Littlebury Greene
previous in UK
Barbury Castle 19 April 1997
next in UK
Littlebury Greene 22 April 1997
same day
no other formation is dated this day
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.

same county and year
Alton Barnes 27 March 1997 · Alton Barnes 27 March 1997 · Alton Barnes 27 March 1997 · Littlebury Greene 22 April 1997 · Barbury Castle 6 May 1997 · Barbury Castle May 1997 · Silbury Hill May 1997 · Winterbourne Bassett 1 June 1997 · Fox Hill 8 June 1997 · Stonehenge 9 June 1997 · Hackpen Hill 11 June 1997 · Marlborough 14 June 1997 · Rockley Down 14 June 1997 · Hinton Parva 16 June 1997 · Charlton 29 June 1997 · Bishops Waltham 9 July 1997 · Alton Barnes 11 July 1997 · Woodborough Hill 11 July 1997 · Bishops Cannings 13 July 1997 · Cley Hill 13 July 1997 and 42 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
c98b29ee8d69d376f085d48c2905d57fb757c59988ddfb6709c108ecf05c519a
entity record
index/formations/UK19970420_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity a1107fb1b58c · images b6d9dac1c2b7 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo b67b546cdc69