Beckhampton
UK19980808_A8 August 1998·Beckhampton, Wiltshire·wheat
Reported 8 August 1998 in wheat at Beckhampton, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 8 August 1998 (day precision)
- place
- Beckhampton
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 210 ft (64.0 m) across
as written: 64 m | 210 ft - recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 2 on the record, 4 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
- 51.419235, -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 4 more on 4 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 53.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 82fabab28b9c | 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 | Two inverted 5 pointed stars overlapping each other. | 620×421 66.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image fbebd834e1ed | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998dh.shtml |
Attached photographs (4)
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 | 8th August 1998 | Wheat P3 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 8 August 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair d640fcc3e5c8 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image beckhampton-wiltshire-8th-august-1998-wheat-p3-35mm
- date 1998-08-08 vs 1998-08-08 (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 (UK19980808_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 8th August 1998 | Wheat P3 35mm | 800×530 497.5 KiB image/jpeg |
image 557a07c9ebbd | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 8th August 1998 | Wheat P 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 8 August 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 102ec8609c82 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image beckhampton-wiltshire-8th-august-1998-wheat-p-35mm
- date 1998-08-08 vs 1998-08-08 (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 (UK19980808_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 8th August 1998 | Wheat P 35mm | 800×512 567.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 40c480cdb150 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 8th August1998 | Wheat P2 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 8 August 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 7c5319470c39 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image beckhampton-wiltshire-8th-august1998-wheat-p2-35mm
- date 1998-08-08 vs 1998-08-08 (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 (UK19980808_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 8th August1998 | Wheat P2 35mm | 800×530 569.3 KiB image/jpeg |
image 596da341a7e8 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 8th August 1998 | Wheat OH 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 8 August 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair a0f270cb2341 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image beckhampton-wiltshire-8th-august-1998-wheat-oh-35mm
- date 1998-08-08 vs 1998-08-08 (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 (UK19980808_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Beckhampton, Wiltshire | 8th August 1998 | Wheat OH 35mm | 800×541 590.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image 318779d84fbe | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Date
8 August 1998, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 8 August 1998 lp: 8 August 1998
- weekday
- Saturday, day 220 of the year, ISO week 32, summer
- sun and moon
- 45.7 days before the September equinox; moon full (100% lit), on 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 | Beckhampton | Wiltshire | United Kingdom | none |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)
- diameter
- 210 ft (64.0 m)
- size as written
- 64 m | 210 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 | UK19980808_A | beckhampton-1998 |
| name | Beckhampton | Beckhampton |
| location | Beckhampton | |
| county | Wiltshire | Wiltshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 1998-08-08 | 1998-08-08 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | wheat | |
| size | 64 m | 210 ft | |
| diameter (ft) | 210 | |
| 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/uk1998dh.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 1998-08-08 vs 1998-08-08 (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 1998-08-08 vs 1998-08-08 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: beckhampton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | no_formation_page | none |
| record | cc/6fbdf4d5c0b5c… raw record view: /formation/cc/6fbdf4d5c0b5c5f9b3796a5b46ddef6dd1140e0d6d10f5a8f6f03bd39ff41143 in the preview app |
lp/99dab36ec8c82… raw record view: /formation/lp/99dab36ec8c8205ad64da57ce11bf679ddc5dc5010fbf361ad12c668b451491f 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 82fabab2 | ≈ 5-fold score 0.857 | 2 | 2 | 0.861 | 0.5425 |
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 82fabab2— 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
- Old Sarum 6 August 1998, Old Sarum
- next
- Conquest 9 August 1998, Conquest
- previous in UK
- Old Sarum 6 August 1998
- next in UK
- Tawesmead Copse 9 August 1998
- same day
- Portsmouth (Portsmouth)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Avebury Stone Circle 2 August 1998, 1.6 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Yatesbury 10 August 1998, 3.6 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Lockeridge 6 August 1998, 6.0 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 5 August 1998, 7.1 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Bishops Cannings 5 August 1998, 7.2 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Oare 4 August 1998, 9.2 km away, 4 day(s) apart · Ogbourne Maizey 2 August 1998, 10.0 km away, 6 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/UK19980808_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity c8efd2d2f11f · images 65475311e519 · attachments b18dc4bb1fe7 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo c0ec413cb0b6