Shepton Mallet
UK19980620_B20 June 1998·Shepton Mallet, Somerset·barley
Reported 20 June 1998 in barley at Shepton Mallet, Somerset. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 20 June 1998 (day precision)
- place
- Shepton Mallet
Somerset
England - crop
- barley
- size
- 59 ft (18.0 m) across
as written: 18 m | 59 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
- 51.189811, -2.547323
- 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 61.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 1f226c23c706 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1998/199806.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.
Shepton Mallet, Somerset | 20th June 1998 | Wheat 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 20 June 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 4358ca480e11 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image shepton-mallet-somerset-20th-june-1998-wheat-35mm
- date 1998-06-20 vs 1998-06-20 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: shepton, mallet
- county Somerset == Somerset
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19980620_B)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Shepton Mallet, Somerset | 20th June 1998 | Wheat 35mm | 800×516 454.4 KiB image/jpeg |
image a3ba4385738e | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Date
20 June 1998, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 20 June 1998
- weekday
- Saturday, day 171 of the year, ISO week 25, summer
- sun and moon
- 1.1 days before the June solstice; moon waning crescent (18% lit), 10.3 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
- 51.189811, -2.547323 — 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 | 51.189811, -2.547323 place / os_open_names |
Crop and size
- crop
- barley (cc: barley)
- diameter
- 59 ft (18.0 m)
- size as written
- 18 m | 59 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 | UK19980620_B |
| name | Shepton Mallet |
| location | |
| county | Somerset |
| country | England |
| date reported | 1998-06-20 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | barley |
| size | 18 m | 59 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 59 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1998/199806.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/7962c33a94a28… raw record view: /formation/cc/7962c33a94a2864f56efd783715ee5eae2d08cf12dd2c49f637331ca09da413f 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 1f226c23 | ≈ 6-fold score 0.959 | 1 | 3 | 0.979 | 0.4641 |
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 1f226c23— 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
- Chiseldon 19 June 1998, Chiseldon
- next
- Racková 21 June 1998, Racková
- previous in UK
- Chiseldon 19 June 1998
- next in UK
- Blandford 21 June 1998
- same day
- Hubiles (Hubiles) · Smirice (Smirice) · Füsing (Füsing) · Goltoft (Goltoft) · Avebury Trusloe (Avebury Trusloe) · Shifnal (Shifnal)
- 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.
Shepton Mallet18 June 2000Shepton Mallet
0 m away, 2000-06-18
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0 m away, 2025-06-24
Ditcheat30 May 2026Ditcheat
6.3 km away, 2026-05-30
Glastonbury17 July 2004Glastonbury
12.8 km away, 2004-07-17
Redlynch22 June 2015Redlynch
13.1 km away, 2015-06-22 Redlynch20 May 1954
Redlynch
13.1 km away, 1954-05-20
- same county and year
- Box 2 July 1998 · Martock 4 July 1998 · Illminster 1998 · Martock 3 July 1998
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/UK19980620_B.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 80a259ec5cff · images 80d067adfc23 · attachments 8a39fe9798ab · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 7cec149c3ffb