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Silbury Hill

UK19970533_B

May 1997·Silbury Hill, Wiltshire·oilseed rape

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Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Silbury Hill, and every formation the archive holds around it. 63 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 May 1997 in oilseed rape at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
May 1997 (month precision)
place
Silbury Hill
Wiltshire
England
crop
oilseed rape
size
not recorded
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
51.415755, -1.857405
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)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource 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/1997/199705.html

Date

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

reported by
cc: May 1997

Place

What each source printed, and the coordinate derived from it. No source in this archive publishes a coordinate of its own.

coordinate
51.415755, -1.857405 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWiltshireEngland 51.415755, -1.857405 place / os_open_names

Crop and size

crop
oilseed rape (cc: oilseed rape)
diameter
not recorded by any source
size as written
not recorded

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 UK19970533_B
name Silbury Hill
location
county Wiltshire
country England
date reported 1997-05
date precision month
crop oilseed rape
size
diameter (ft)
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199705.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings unknown_day; no_formation_page
record cc/abc2ecbc66a14…
raw record view: /formation/cc/abc2ecbc66a142645fb349ae098db3b135deb993373766816a83d896b508a743 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.

diagramrotational symmetryelementsringsmirrorfill
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
Ceska Lipa 23 April 1997, Ceska Lipa
next
Strethall 2 May 1997, Strethall
previous in UK
Littlebury Greene 22 April 1997
next in UK
Strethall 2 May 1997
same day
Hoeven (Hoeven) · Barbury Castle (Barbury Castle) · Clanfield (Clanfield) · Rye (Rye) · Burderop Down (near Barbury Castle) (Burderop Down (near Barbury Castle))
within 7 days and 25 km
Barbury Castle 6 May 1997, 9.2 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Barbury Castle May 1997, 9.2 km away

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 · Barbury Castle 20 April 1997 · Littlebury Greene 22 April 1997 · Barbury Castle 6 May 1997 · Barbury Castle 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
none
entity record
index/formations/UK19970533_B.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity ffc7dbc48184 · images afe2570b1c43 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo eb8f968065ce