Beckhampton
UK19980721_A21 July 1998·Beckhampton, Wiltshire·wheat
Reported 21 July 1998 in wheat at Beckhampton, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 21 July 1998 (day precision)
- place
- Beckhampton
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 433 ft (132.0 m) across
as written: 132 m | 433 ft - recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 2 on the record, 2 attached · 1 diagram, 1 other
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
A361 between Beckhampton and Devizes
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.419235, -1.873717
- 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, and 2 more on 2 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 45.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 3fe529b770ef | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1998/199807.html |
Photographs (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | A very large formation consisting of a 'jellyfish' shape with a long 'tail' of small circles. | 405×620 33.2 KiB image/jpeg |
image 10f32014bd5f | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998co.shtml |
Attached photographs (2)
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.
Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 21st July 1998 | Wheat L 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 21 July 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair e698d8d36437 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image beckhampton-wiltshire-21st-july-1998-wheat-l-35mm
- date 1998-07-21 vs 1998-07-21 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: beckhampton
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19980721_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 21st July 1998 | Wheat L 35mm | 800×527 435.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image b135688a558d | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 21st July 1998 | Wheat OH 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 21 July 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair b320ae7ba142 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image beckhampton-wiltshire-21st-july-1998-wheat-oh-35mm
- date 1998-07-21 vs 1998-07-21 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: beckhampton
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19980721_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 21st July 1998 | Wheat OH 35mm | 800×521 499.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image b728bfa22d5d | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Date
21 July 1998, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 21 July 1998 lp: 21 July 1998
- weekday
- Tuesday, day 202 of the year, ISO week 30, summer
- sun and moon
- 29.9 days after the June solstice; moon waning crescent (5% lit), 11.8 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
- 51.419235, -1.873717 — 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 | 51.419235, -1.873717 place / os_open_names | |||
| lp | A361 between Beckhampton and Devizes | Wiltshire | United Kingdom | none |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)
- diameter
- 433 ft (132.0 m)
- size as written
- 132 m | 433 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 | UK19980721_A | a361-between-beckhampton-and-devizes-1998 |
| name differs | Beckhampton | A361 between Beckhampton and Devizes |
| location | A361 between Beckhampton and Devizes | |
| county | Wiltshire | Wiltshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 1998-07-21 | 1998-07-21 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | wheat | |
| size | 132 m | 433 ft | |
| diameter (ft) | 433 | |
| grid reference | ||
| what3words | ||
| map link | ||
| credits differs | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | Lucy Pringle |
| source page differs | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1998/199807.html | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998co.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1998-07-21 vs 1998-07-21 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: beckhampton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1998-07-21 vs 1998-07-21 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: beckhampton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | no_formation_page | none |
| record | cc/21aa8ea0b4905… raw record view: /formation/cc/21aa8ea0b4905b53e9275e7794ee6c9b4f92a0bb329139e3ddba8f94bcef12e0 in the preview app |
lp/94bad2ad4e166… raw record view: /formation/lp/94bad2ad4e166bc9c4cc5e151c080196a9b9bd19b2406a87a41e20cc080f6cd5 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 3fe529b7 | ≈ none found | 12 | 0 | 0.909 | 0.0608 |
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 3fe529b7— 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
- Nampa 20 July 1998, Nampa
- next
- Huise 22 July 1998, Huise
- previous in UK
- Cherhill White Horse 18 July 1998
- next in UK
- Silbury Hill 22 July 1998
- same day
- Sinsheim (Sinsheim) · Dorchester (Dorchester) · Pendleton Airport (Pendleton Airport) · Whiskey Hill (Whiskey Hill)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Silbury Hill 23 July 1998, 1.2 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Milk Hill 26 July 1998, 4.9 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Milk Hill 26 July 1998, 4.9 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Cherhill White Horse 18 July 1998, 5.3 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Marlborough 25 July 1998, 10.0 km away, 4 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
BeckhamptonAugust 1985Beckhampton
0 m away, 1985-08
Beckhampton1 July 1987Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-07-01 Beckhampton31 August 1987
Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-08-31
Beckhampton31 August 1987Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-08-31
BeckhamptonAugust 1987Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-08
Beckhampton5 September 1987Beckhampton
0 m away, 1987-09-05
- same county and year
- Chiseldon 20 April 1998 · Silbury Hill 4 May 1998 · Chiseldon 10 May 1998 · Ogbourne Maizey 17 May 1998 · Chiseldon 19 May 1998 · West Overton 23 May 1998 · Winterbourne Bassett 23 May 1998 · Lockeridge 25 May 1998 · West Overton 25 May 1998 · West Overton 28 May 1998 · West Overton 29 May 1998 · Trowbridge 30 May 1998 · Trowbridge 30 May 1998 · West Kennett 1 June 1998 · Bishops Cannings 5 June 1998 · Avebury Stone Avenue 6 June 1998 · Beckhampton 6 June 1998 · West Overton 13 June 1998 · West Kennett 14 June 1998 · East Kennett 15 June 1998 and 72 more
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-15T21:14:17Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- 20260915T030325Z-index-build, 20260915T211417Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19980721_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity ce0a73bce9c2 · images 8676690cdb93 · attachments a357d547358d · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 23f9e1526ca8