Alton Barnes
UK19970731_A31 July 1997·Alton Barnes, Wiltshire·wheat
Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.
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Alton Barnes (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.70, rule month_place, pair 5adc0f2d)
date 1997-07 vs 1997-07-31 (day/month); alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) -
Alton Barnes (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.70, rule month_place, pair 6bb2c472)
date 1997-07 vs 1997-07-31 (day/month); alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) -
Alton Barnes (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.70, rule month_place, pair e493fc9a)
date 1997-07 vs 1997-07-31 (day/month); alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) -
Badbury Castle (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 11321a15)
date 1997-07-31 vs 1997-07-31 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) -
Liddington Castle (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 1fa7d81c)
date 1997-07-31 vs 1997-07-31 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) -
Marlborough (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair f4360573)
date 1997-07-31 vs 1997-07-31 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Reported 31 July 1997 in wheat at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 31 July 1997 (day precision)
- place
- Alton Barnes
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 102 ft (31.1 m) across
as written: 31 m | 102 ft - recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 2 · 1 diagram, 1 other
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
East Field
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.357372, -1.850463
- 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 70.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image 9405a6008861 | 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 | Badly made attempt at copying the Flower of Life. | 620×483 58.1 KiB image/jpeg |
image bad8ed6b7deb | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1997/uk1997cd.shtml |
Date
31 July 1997, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 31 July 1997 lp: 31 July 1997
- weekday
- Thursday, day 212 of the year, ISO week 31, summer
- sun and moon
- 40.2 days after the June solstice; moon waning crescent (8% lit), 11.4 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
- 51.357372, -1.850463 — 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 | 51.357372, -1.850463 place / os_open_names | |||
| lp | East Field | Wiltshire | United Kingdom | none |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)
- diameter
- 102 ft (31.1 m)
- size as written
- 31 m | 102 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 | UK19970731_A | east-field-1997 |
| name differs | Alton Barnes | East Field |
| location | East Field | |
| county | Wiltshire | Wiltshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 1997-07-31 | 1997-07-31 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | wheat | |
| size | 31 m | 102 ft | |
| diameter (ft) | 102 | |
| 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/uk1997cd.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1997-07-31 vs 1997-07-31 (delta +0 d); alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1997-07-31 vs 1997-07-31 (delta +0 d); alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | no_formation_page | none |
| record | cc/0040221c0fc40… raw record view: /formation/cc/0040221c0fc40c39e303db1f1433742cb4c455f42d8d6ff9ec222368fc93e0d8 in the preview app |
lp/06f4d91f90b77… raw record view: /formation/lp/06f4d91f90b77b1c0d3d4913fd3162c11026717c13ff5473f8b1ca422d03fe5c 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 9405a600 | ≈ none found | 2 | 3 | 0.731 | 0.2175 |
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 9405a600— 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
- Etchilhampton 30 July 1997, Etchilhampton
- next
- Lindau 1 August 1997, Lindau
- previous in UK
- Etchilhampton 30 July 1997
- next in UK
- Dodworth 1 August 1997
- same day
- Groenstraat (Groenstraat) · Schiphol (Schiphol) · Badbury Castle (Badbury Castle) · Keysley Down (Keysley Down) · Liddington Castle (Liddington Castle) · Marlborough (Marlborough)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Woodborough Hill 24 July 1997, 1.6 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Milk Hill 1 August 1997, 2.3 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Etchilhampton 30 July 1997, 6.1 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Etchilhampton 30 July 1997, 6.1 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Pewsey 26 July 1997, 6.3 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Marlborough 31 July 1997, 11.0 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Marlborough August 1997, 11.0 km away · Barbury 28 July 1997, 14.9 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Badbury Castle 31 July 1997, 20.6 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Bratton Castle 25 July 1997, 21.3 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Fosbury Fort 1 August 1997, 21.8 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Liddington Castle 28 July 1997, 21.8 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Liddington Castle 31 July 1997, 21.8 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Liddington Castle 1 August 1997, 21.8 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Liddington Castle 1 August 1997, 21.8 km away, 1 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1970
Alton Barnes10 September 1988Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1988-09-10
Alton Barnes12 July 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-07-12
Alton BarnesAugust 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-08 Alton Barnes18 April 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-04-18
Alton Barnes2 July 1991Alton 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 · 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
- 11321a150f4bb54cdf03fa74dd54cfa61a26518b19d6ad2972186a226708c6df, 1fa7d81cf129ce85afbb6c81b97417307cfe988df16faf0dfc1e49913cef722c, 5adc0f2d56cf45e6c9df0703d1570254bea3b85ad4076cee99aa5627ae14192f, 6bb2c472854e13d756063e29d15dc91be8d46f64686a7dc394eda6ebc424173b, e493fc9aeb4720bf03860bc415ff63c0c4a2061a5b8859d418046e2f1ea33e56, f4360573c33d4982c1efa8d277332279b61dad679902e315fa06bacc989ca82d
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19970731_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity ad4dd4a159e3 · images d6a88a22e18d · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 9d9131e6aeb3