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Play Hatch

UK19990722_A

22 July 1999·Play Hatch, Oxfordshire·oilseed rape

5 km
Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Play Hatch, and every formation the archive holds around it. 1 other formations sit on this exact point, because their sources named the same place and gave no finer position. The dashed ring is how precise the fix is (±2,000 m at place confidence), drawn at its true size.

Reported 22 July 1999 in oilseed rape at Play Hatch, Oxfordshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
22 July 1999 (day precision)
place
Play Hatch
Oxfordshire
England
crop
oilseed rape
size
59 ft (18.0 m) across
as written: 18 m | 59 ft
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
18 m across100 m

Also called

Nothing else. No other name or place string appears on any source record for this formation.

Where exactly

coordinate
51.479358, -0.934637
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

1 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)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
cc diagram
no diagram published by cropcirclecenter (plain circle placeholder)
cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
32.4 KiB image/jpeg
image c782665e5c68 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1999/199907.html

Date

22 July 1999, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 22 July 1999
weekday
Thursday, day 203 of the year, ISO week 29, summer
sun and moon
30.7 days after the June solstice; moon waxing gibbous (70% lit), 6.0 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
51.479358, -0.934637 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccOxfordshireEngland 51.479358, -0.934637 place / os_open_names

Crop and size

crop
oilseed rape (cc: oilseed rape)
diameter
59 ft (18.0 m)
size as written
18 m | 59 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
id / slug UK19990722_A
name Play Hatch
location
county Oxfordshire
country England
date reported 1999-07-22
date precision day
crop oilseed rape
size 18 m | 59 ft
diameter (ft) 59
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1999/199907.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/453904a913b7c…
raw record view: /formation/cc/453904a913b7ca7b9271ec49433fc103a65cf5b85667b47e200e62463cd4934e 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, of which 1 is a shared cropcirclecenter placeholder rather than a drawing of this formation. 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 c782665e (placeholder: digest) ≈ continuous (concentric circles) 1 1 0.996 1.0049

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 c782665e— 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
Stanton St Bernard 21 July 1999, Stanton St Bernard
next
Berkel-Enschot 23 July 1999, Berkel-Enschot
previous in UK
Stanton St Bernard 21 July 1999
next in UK
Barbury Castle 23 July 1999
same day
Hagersville (Hagersville) · Hagersville (Hagersville)
within 7 days and 25 km
none, or this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

same county and year
Toot Baldon 24 May 1999 · Toot Baldon 24 May 1999 · Kiddlington 13 June 1999 · Toot Baldon 13 June 1999 · Asthall 21 July 1999 · Garsington 23 July 1999 · Chilson 4 August 1999 · Faringdon 15 August 1999 · Play Hatch 15 August 1999

Provenance

entity built at
2026-09-11T19:20:39Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
index run ids
none
reviews applied
none
open queue pairs
none
entity record
index/formations/UK19990722_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 42e1cb549085 · images afe2570b1c43 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo fcbf6c7ebff2