Avebury Stone Circle
UK19980802_A2 August 1998·Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire·wheat
Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.
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Ogbourne Maizey (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair d4df6f39)
date 1998-08-02 vs 1998-08-02 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Reported 2 August 1998 in wheat at Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 2 August 1998 (day precision)
- place
- Avebury Stone Circle
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 325 ft (99.1 m) across
as written: 99 m | 325 ft - recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 2 on the record, 3 attached · 1 diagram, 1 other
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
Avebury
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.428367, -1.855137
- 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 3 more on 3 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 39.3 KiB image/jpeg |
image e749cfc1fa7a | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1998/199808.html |
Photographs (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | A wide, large ring with a standing circle in the center. A tiny flattened circle is in the center of the standing circle (same field as 'Spiders Web' formation of 1994). | 620×424 37.1 KiB image/jpeg |
image f191bddeee1a | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998df.shtml |
Attached photographs (3)
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.
Avebury, Wiltshire | 2nd August 1998 | Wheat FE 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 2 August 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair e2a8fed201f1 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image avebury-wiltshire-2nd-august-1998-wheat-fe-35mm
- date 1998-08-02 vs 1998-08-02 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: avebury
- alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A)
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19980802_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Avebury, Wiltshire | 2nd August 1998 | Wheat FE 35mm | 800×526 416.1 KiB image/jpeg |
image a23d12d33002 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Avebury, Wiltshire | 2nd August 1998 | Wheat L 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 2 August 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 2e1a8b074028 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image avebury-wiltshire-2nd-august-1998-wheat-l-35mm
- date 1998-08-02 vs 1998-08-02 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: avebury
- alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A)
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19980802_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Avebury, Wiltshire | 2nd August 1998 | Wheat L 35mm | 800×516 512.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image f88ac57f169a | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Avebury, Wiltshire | 2nd August 1998 | Wheat OH 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 2 August 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 5be216cdcbd2 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image avebury-wiltshire-2nd-august-1998-wheat-oh-35mm
- date 1998-08-02 vs 1998-08-02 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: avebury
- alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A)
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19980802_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Avebury, Wiltshire | 2nd August 1998 | Wheat OH 35mm | 800×510 518.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image cd3ccbca7350 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Date
2 August 1998, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 2 August 1998 lp: 2 August 1998
- weekday
- Sunday, day 214 of the year, ISO week 31, summer
- sun and moon
- 41.9 days after the June solstice; moon waxing gibbous (69% lit), 5.6 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
- 51.428367, -1.855137 — 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 | 51.428367, -1.855137 place / os_open_names | |||
| lp | Avebury | Wiltshire | United Kingdom | none |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)
- diameter
- 325 ft (99.1 m)
- size as written
- 99 m | 325 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 | UK19980802_A | avebury-1998 |
| name differs | Avebury Stone Circle | Avebury |
| location | Avebury | |
| county | Wiltshire | Wiltshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 1998-08-02 | 1998-08-02 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | wheat | |
| size | 99 m | 325 ft | |
| diameter (ft) | 325 | |
| grid reference | ||
| what3words | ||
| map link | ||
| credits differs | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | Lucy Pringle |
| source page differs | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1998/199808.html | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998df.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1998-08-02 vs 1998-08-02 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: avebury; alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1998-08-02 vs 1998-08-02 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: avebury; alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | no_formation_page | none |
| record | cc/d0c698d5fb4f3… raw record view: /formation/cc/d0c698d5fb4f319f65073d1b8d3aac32a5056ece45d5d3212834bbb9c18dca02 in the preview app |
lp/185b5de4ad2da… raw record view: /formation/lp/185b5de4ad2da13d10362a00b27f2f3f25b2136e80f976cda4dfd7cdb74ee4e6 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 e749cfc1 | ≈ continuous (concentric circles) | 2 | 2 | 0.993 | 0.7959 |
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 e749cfc1— 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
- Longparish August 1998, Longparish
- next
- Novy Jicin 3 August 1998, Novy Jicin
- previous in UK
- Longparish August 1998
- next in UK
- Oare 4 August 1998
- same day
- Henley (Henley) · Danebury Rings (Danebury Rings) · Danebury Rings (Danebury Rings) · Danebury Rings (Danebury Rings) · Fareham (Fareham) · Ogbourne Maizey (Ogbourne Maizey) · Saltdean (Saltdean) · Upham (Upham) · Danebury Ring (Danebury Ring) · Danebury Ring (Danebury Ring) · Danebury Ring (Danebury Ring)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Beckhampton 8 August 1998, 1.6 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Lockeridge 6 August 1998, 5.1 km away, 4 day(s) apart · Milk Hill 26 July 1998, 5.6 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Milk Hill 26 July 1998, 5.6 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 5 August 1998, 7.9 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Ogbourne Maizey 2 August 1998, 8.6 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Bishops Cannings 5 August 1998, 8.8 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Oare 4 August 1998, 9.1 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Chiseldon 30 July 1998, 12.9 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Ashbury 30 July 1998, 22.2 km away, 3 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Avebury
0 m away, 1988-06-17 Avebury1 July 1990
Avebury
0 m away, 1990-07-01
AveburyJuly 1991Avebury
0 m away, 1991-07
Avebury1 August 1991Avebury
0 m away, 1991-08-01 Avebury2 August 1991
Avebury
0 m away, 1991-08-02 Avebury3 August 1991
Avebury
0 m away, 1991-08-03
- 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
- d4df6f394a70a1d118843a1e8b3beb6de52cda7d6e7583fbcda2d34e84969336
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19980802_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 3c57d198e676 · images 7ba9c8231b13 · attachments 5f012f6317f6 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 690c7d715b32