Alton Barnes

Images

4 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)

diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default

Photographs (3)

other Lucy Pringle page credit other Lucy Pringle page credit other Lucy Pringle page credit

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.

Alton Priors, Wiltshire | 11th July 1997 | Wheat 35mm Neg Scan

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 11 July 1997 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 6a52e29a08dc · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

• attachment: tt archive_image alton-priors-wiltshire-11th-july-1997-wheat-35mm-neg-scan
• date 1997-07-11 vs 1997-07-11 (delta +0 d)
• name tokens shared: alton
• county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
• country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
• crop wheat == wheat
• the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19970711_A)

other Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
tt	other	Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples	site default	Alton Priors, Wiltshire | 11th July 1997 | Wheat 35mm Neg Scan	800×637 782.3 KiB image/jpeg	image 3cb7c75315b6	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1997-crop-circles

Date

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

reported by

cc: 11 July 1997 lp: 11 July 1997

weekday

Friday, day 192 of the year, ISO week 28, summer

sun and moon

20.2 days after the June solstice; moon waxing crescent (37% lit), 8.6 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

51.357372, -1.850463 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record

on a map

OpenStreetMap

Crop and size

crop

wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)

diameter

499 ft (152.1 m)

size as written

152 m | 499 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.

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.

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 3fdd90d7— 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

Beilen 10 July 1997, Beilen

next

Zevenberg 12 July 1997, Zevenberg

previous in UK

Bishops Waltham 9 July 1997

next in UK

Lane End Down 12 July 1997

same day

Emmen (Emmen) · Emmen (Emmen) · Newbridge (Newbridge) · St Neots (St Neots) · Woodborough Hill (Woodborough Hill) · Cosford nr Rugby (Cosford nr Rugby)

within 7 days and 25 km

Woodborough Hill 11 July 1997, 1.6 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Bishops Cannings 13 July 1997, 7.0 km away, 2 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

Alton Barnes1970
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1970 Alton Barnes10 September 1988
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1988-09-10 Alton Barnes12 July 1990
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-07-12 Alton BarnesAugust 1990
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-08 Alton Barnes18 April 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-04-18 Alton Barnes2 July 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-07-02

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 · 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 · Woodborough Hill 11 July 1997 · Bishops Cannings 13 July 1997 · Cley Hill 13 July 1997 and 42 more

Provenance

entity built at

2026-09-15T21:14:17Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)

index run ids

20260915T030325Z-index-build, 20260915T211417Z-index-build

reviews applied

none

open queue pairs

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entity record

index/formations/UK19970711_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl

input digests

entity 191d54730263 · images d44037ecba3f · attachments 84d8fded62af · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 9ad342cfd4e7