Bratton Castle
UK19970725_A25 July 1997·Bratton Castle, Wiltshire·wheat
Reported 25 July 1997 in wheat at Bratton Castle, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 25 July 1997 (day precision)
- place
- Bratton Castle
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 25 ft (7.6 m) across
as written: 7,5 m | 25 ft - recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 2 · 1 diagram, 1 other
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
Bratton
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.270568, -2.123756
- 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
2 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 34.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image ed0fe7a105a1 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199707.html |
Photographs (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | Wheat c.30' dia. | 620×403 26.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image e6a42064f015 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1997/uk1997di.shtml |
Date
25 July 1997, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 25 July 1997 lp: 25 July 1997
- weekday
- Friday, day 206 of the year, ISO week 30, summer
- sun and moon
- 34.2 days after the June solstice; moon waning gibbous (64% lit), 5.4 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
- 51.270568, -2.123756 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | Wiltshire | England | 51.270568, -2.123756 place / os_open_names | |||
| lp | Bratton | Wiltshire | United Kingdom | none |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)
- diameter
- 25 ft (7.6 m)
- size as written
- 7,5 m | 25 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 | lp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk |
|---|---|---|
| id / slug differs | UK19970725_A | bratton-1997 |
| name differs | Bratton Castle | Bratton |
| location | Bratton | |
| county | Wiltshire | Wiltshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 1997-07-25 | 1997-07-25 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | wheat | |
| size | 7,5 m | 25 ft | |
| diameter (ft) | 25 | |
| grid reference | ||
| what3words | ||
| map link | ||
| credits differs | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | Lucy Pringle |
| source page differs | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199707.html | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1997/uk1997di.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1997-07-25 vs 1997-07-25 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: bratton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1997-07-25 vs 1997-07-25 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: bratton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | no_formation_page | none |
| record | cc/22d4fc2197d73… raw record view: /formation/cc/22d4fc2197d738f4887b55711ebd15bf65b3d36d6507a85a4f26d3ef921f21c7 in the preview app |
lp/3a80911c2985d… raw record view: /formation/lp/3a80911c2985d1179ad3bce1a1885efa42fa01b6f13011bbf177f2942bf0f439 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 ed0fe7a1 | ≈ none found | 3 | 1 | 0.986 | 0.28 |
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 ed0fe7a1— 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
- Woodborough Hill 24 July 1997, Woodborough Hill
- next
- Andover 26 July 1997, Andover
- previous in UK
- Woodborough Hill 24 July 1997
- next in UK
- Andover 26 July 1997
- same day
- no other formation is dated this day
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Cley Hill August 1997, 10.7 km away · Etchilhampton 30 July 1997, 15.4 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Etchilhampton 30 July 1997, 15.4 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Keysley Down 31 July 1997, 18.2 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Woodborough Hill 24 July 1997, 20.7 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 31 July 1997, 21.3 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Milk Hill 1 August 1997, 22.4 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Silbury Hill 23 July 1997, 24.6 km away, 2 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Bratton
0 m away, 1972 BrattonMay 1979
Bratton
0 m away, 1979-05 Bratton Castle15 August 1980
Bratton Castle
0 m away, 1980-08-15
BrattonJuly 1982Bratton
0 m away, 1982-07
BrattonJuly 1983Bratton
0 m away, 1983-07
Bratton13 July 1986Bratton
0 m away, 1986-07-13
- 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 · Alton Barnes 11 July 1997 · Woodborough Hill 11 July 1997 · Bishops Cannings 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
- 20260915T211417Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19970725_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 126bacd6740d · images 0c414f3d77da · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 8fbd2ba3963d