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Berkhamstead

UK19970802_A

2 August 1997·Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire

50 km
Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Berkhamstead, and every formation the archive holds around it. 10 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 (±25,840 m at county confidence), drawn at its true size.

Reported 2 August 1997 at Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
2 August 1997 (day precision)
place
Berkhamstead
Hertfordshire
England
crop
not recorded by any source
size
5577 ft (1699.9 m) across
as written: 1700 m | 5577 ft
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
1700 m across100 m

Also called

Nothing else. No other name or place string appears on any source record for this formation.

Where exactly

coordinate
51.822511, -0.227661
how it was got
county centroid
county, to within 25,840 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
same file as tt
diagram
no diagram published by cropcirclecenter (“no diagram” tile)
cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
66.1 KiB image/jpeg
image 3461dff5df5d https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199708.html

Date

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

reported by
cc: 2 August 1997
weekday
Saturday, day 214 of the year, ISO week 31, summer
sun and moon
42.2 days after the June solstice; moon new (1% lit), 13.4 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
51.822511, -0.227661 — county, ±25,840 m, by county_centroid, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccHertfordshireEngland 51.822511, -0.227661 county / county_centroid

Crop and size

crop
not recorded (cc: —)
diameter
5577 ft (1699.9 m)
size as written
1700 m | 5577 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 UK19970802_A
name Berkhamstead
location
county Hertfordshire
country England
date reported 1997-08-02
date precision day
crop
size 1700 m | 5577 ft
diameter (ft) 5577
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199708.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/c179d579e107c…
raw record view: /formation/cc/c179d579e107cbf01150793f79f56f9a38265ebf5e976c6e45e225c9ac1ec77c 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 3461dff5 (placeholder: digest) ≈ 2-fold score 0.906 4 3 0.853 0.3434

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 3461dff5— 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
Liddington Castle 1 August 1997, Liddington Castle
next
Geismar 3 August 1997, Geismar
previous in UK
Liddington Castle 1 August 1997
next in UK
Flitwick 4 August 1997
same day
Shrewsbury (Shrewsbury) · Sollom (Sollom)
within 7 days and 25 km
none, or this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better, so nothing can be called near it

same county and year
Walkern 30 June 1997

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/UK19970802_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 5ed046b5d54e · images cde4d9495e39 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo c178b8fa840c