Alton Barnes
UK19980805_A5 August 1998·Alton Barnes, Wiltshire·wheat
Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.
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Bishops Cannings (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 8a5688ec)
date 1998-08-05 vs 1998-08-05 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) -
UK19980805_C (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair ff272e55)
date 1998-08-05 vs 1998-08-05 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Reported 5 August 1998 in wheat at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 5 August 1998 (day precision)
- place
- Alton Barnes
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- not recorded
- recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 2 · 1 diagram, 1 other
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
East Field East Field, Alton Barne
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.357372, -1.850463
- 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. 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 49.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image c9776b21ab60 | 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 | Hoax of a car commissioned by Mitsubishi and made by 'Team Satan' which took all day to construct. | 620×415 53.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image a50bbe648dab | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998dk.shtml |
Date
5 August 1998, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 5 August 1998 lp: 5 August 1998
- weekday
- Wednesday, day 217 of the year, ISO week 32, summer
- sun and moon
- 44.9 days after the June solstice; moon waxing gibbous (92% lit), 2.6 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
- 51.357372, -1.850463 — 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 | 51.357372, -1.850463 place / os_open_names | |||
| lp | East Field, Alton Barne | Wiltshire | United 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.com | lp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk |
|---|---|---|
| id / slug differs | UK19980805_A | east-field-1998 |
| name differs | Alton Barnes | East Field |
| location | East Field, Alton Barne | |
| county | Wiltshire | Wiltshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 1998-08-05 | 1998-08-05 |
| 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/1998/199808.html | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998dk.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1998-08-05 vs 1998-08-05 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: alton; alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1998-08-05 vs 1998-08-05 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: alton; alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | no_formation_page | none |
| record | cc/e60c49215941f… raw record view: /formation/cc/e60c49215941f62c709d51b60418c0614d0181b47004ae3f0c07e4656e35b14e in the preview app |
lp/a46c353545c27… raw record view: /formation/lp/a46c353545c2777ad7999621908587783cb6fe67ffe417527dfb12dca0ea308d 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 c9776b21 | ≈ none found | 3 | 2 | 0.872 | 0.2828 |
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 c9776b21— 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
- Oare 4 August 1998, Oare
- next
- Beinwil am See 6 August 1998, Beinwil am See
- previous in UK
- Oare 4 August 1998
- next in UK
- Lockeridge 6 August 1998
- same day
- Bishops Cannings (Bishops Cannings) · UK19980805_C (Wiltshire)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Oare 4 August 1998, 5.0 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Bishops Cannings 5 August 1998, 7.0 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Beckhampton 8 August 1998, 7.1 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Lockeridge 6 August 1998, 7.1 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Avebury Stone Circle 2 August 1998, 7.9 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Yatesbury 10 August 1998, 10.4 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Ogbourne Maizey 2 August 1998, 12.4 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Chiseldon 30 July 1998, 19.4 km away, 6 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1970
Alton Barnes10 September 1988Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1988-09-10
Alton Barnes12 July 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-07-12
Alton BarnesAugust 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-08 Alton Barnes18 April 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-04-18
Alton Barnes2 July 1991Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-07-02
- 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
- 20260915T211417Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- 8a5688ec5aa7502eada029d06dbf95b03b37b5c4cc83ee726c1c2d207431e84d, ff272e5564a2c3f53550488550e7c4a735b690601ebc4e2a707c2ead0ec25f81
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19980805_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 3056e71e5f60 · images d446b4d539a3 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 75c3e90d5b9b