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Cheriton

UK19980731_A

31 July 1998·Cheriton, Hampshire·wheat

Lucy Pringle (page credit) · other published by cropcirclephotographs.co.uk — Two circles inside an 'S' shape.. One of 2 images on this record.

Reported 31 July 1998 in wheat at Cheriton, Hampshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.

The record

date
31 July 1998 (day precision)
place
Cheriton
Hampshire
England
crop
wheat
size
not recorded
recorded by
cc lp
images
2 on the record, 1 attached · 1 diagram, 1 other
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
51.053450, -1.169309
how it was got
os open names
place, to within 2,000 m, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
5 km

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 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)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
cc diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
51.8 KiB image/jpeg
image c8bac0981dd9 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1998/199807.html

Photographs (1)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
lp other Lucy Pringle page credit Two circles inside an 'S' shape. 620×406
47.1 KiB image/jpeg
image 972dfd746cb8 https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998cw.shtml

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.

Cheriton, Hampshire | 31st July 1998 | Wheat 35mm

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 31 July 1998 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair aa5e630539ae · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

  • attachment: tt archive_image cheriton-hampshire-31st-july-1998-wheat-35mm
  • date 1998-07-31 vs 1998-07-31 (delta +0 d)
  • name tokens shared: cheriton
  • county Hampshire == Hampshire
  • country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
  • crop wheat == wheat
  • the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19980731_A)
sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
tt other Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default Cheriton, Hampshire | 31st July 1998 | Wheat 35mm 800×542
534.1 KiB image/jpeg
image 814bad2dcadf https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles

Date

31 July 1998, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 31 July 1998 lp: 31 July 1998
weekday
Friday, day 212 of the year, ISO week 31, summer
sun and moon
39.9 days after the June solstice; moon first quarter (50% lit), 7.6 days before 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
51.053450, -1.169309 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccHampshireEngland 51.053450, -1.169309 place / os_open_names
lpCheritonHampshireUnited Kingdom none

Crop and size

crop
wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)
diameter
not recorded by any source
size as written
not recorded

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.comlp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk
id / slug differs UK19980731_A cheriton-1998
name Cheriton Cheriton
location Cheriton
county Hampshire Hampshire
country differs England United Kingdom
date reported 1998-07-31 1998-07-31
date precision day day
crop wheat
size
diameter (ft)
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/uk1998cw.shtml
link to the entity rule Bscore 0.90
decided by rule on 2026-09-15
date 1998-07-31 vs 1998-07-31 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: cheriton; county Hampshire == Hampshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
rule Bscore 0.90
decided by rule on 2026-09-15
date 1998-07-31 vs 1998-07-31 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: cheriton; county Hampshire == Hampshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
warnings no_formation_pagenone
record cc/b618b16f1a3ae…
raw record view: /formation/cc/b618b16f1a3ae27e4d7555ca251d7322e784bc859004ea49fc466e68be8af124 in the preview app
lp/a82f27df9a978…
raw record view: /formation/lp/a82f27df9a97840bbe5740da2c6873a1acc172131b6394f003a0370892c1f18d 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.

diagramrotational symmetryelementsringsmirrorfill
cc c8bac098 ≈ 2-fold score 0.992 3 2 0.962 0.3909

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 c8bac098— 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 30 July 1998, Chiseldon
next
Edmonton August 1998, Edmonton
previous in UK
Chiseldon 30 July 1998
next in UK
Longparish August 1998
same day
Dlouhé (Dlouhé)
within 7 days and 25 km
Upham 2 August 1998, 9.3 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Chidden Down 25 July 1998, 13.2 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Longparish August 1998, 21.9 km away · Fareham 2 August 1998, 22.4 km away, 2 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

same county and year
Weyhill 19 April 1998 · Goodworth Clatford 10 May 1998 · Litchfield 22 May 1998 · Privett 16 June 1998 · Clanfield 19 June 1998 · Petersfield 22 June 1998 · Owlesbury 1 July 1998 · Stockbridge 5 July 1998 · Fareham 9 July 1998 · Gander Down 10 July 1998 · Chidden Down 25 July 1998 · Danebury Rings 2 August 1998 · Danebury Rings 2 August 1998 · Danebury Rings 2 August 1998 · Fareham 2 August 1998 · Upham 2 August 1998 · Portsmouth 8 August 1998 · Longparish August 1998 · Clanfield 22 June 1998 · Chidden Down 6 August 1998 and 6 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/UK19980731_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 4fa39ffc51d5 · images 9298f5c148bc · attachments c94b6cae8505 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 7a11729c567b