Keysley Down
UK19970731_C31 July 1997·Keysley Down, Somerset·wheat
Reported 31 July 1997 in wheat at Keysley Down, Somerset. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 31 July 1997 (day precision)
- place
- Keysley Down
Somerset
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 102 ft (31.1 m) across
as written: 31 m | 102 ft - recorded by
- cc
- images
- 1 on the record, 1 attached · 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
- 51.111599, -2.185727
- 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, 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 46.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image b2e7bed75e76 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199707.html |
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.
Keysley Down, Wiltshire | 31st July 1997 | Wheat 35mm Neg Scan
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 31 July 1997 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 42b43702060b · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image keysley-down-wiltshire-31st-july-1997-wheat-35mm-neg-scan
- date 1997-07-31 vs 1997-07-31 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: keysley
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19970731_C)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Keysley Down, Wiltshire | 31st July 1997 | Wheat 35mm Neg Scan | 800×507 623.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image 191adc12d492 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1997-crop-circles |
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
- 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
- 51.111599, -2.185727 — 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 | Somerset | England | 51.111599, -2.185727 place / os_open_names |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- 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 |
|---|---|
| id / slug | UK19970731_C |
| name | Keysley Down |
| location | |
| county | Somerset |
| country | England |
| date reported | 1997-07-31 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | 31 m | 102 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 102 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199707.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/275df4c3ea495… raw record view: /formation/cc/275df4c3ea495fefaad425af8e162e950f294c70f9b437f854b7722df8ee697e 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 b2e7bed7 | ≈ none found | 6 | 0 | 0.925 | 0.0568 |
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 b2e7bed7— 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) · Alton Barnes (Alton Barnes) · Badbury Castle (Badbury Castle) · Liddington Castle (Liddington Castle) · Marlborough (Marlborough)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Cley Hill August 1997, 10.6 km away · Bratton Castle 25 July 1997, 18.2 km away, 6 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Willoughby Hedge8 May 2018Willoughby Hedge
902 m away, 2018-05-08
Keysley Down10 June 2018Keysley Down
1.1 km away, 2018-06-10
Willoughboy Hedge5 June 2016Willoughboy Hedge
1.3 km away, 2016-06-05
Willoughby Hedge4 May 2017Willoughby Hedge
1.3 km away, 2017-05-04
West Knoyle12 July 2020West Knoyle
2.6 km away, 2020-07-12
Upton Lowell7 August 1992Upton Lowell
2.8 km away, 1992-08-07
- same county and year
- Newbridge 11 July 1997 · Haselbury Plucknett 17 July 1997 · Compton Dando 16 August 1997 · Illminster 16 August 1997 · Keysley Down 16 August 1997
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- 20260915T030325Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19970731_C.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 7109e28d3371 · images 65039b4a76e1 · attachments 02e403427e76 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 3a6ee508d30c