Barbury Castle
UK19990723_A23 July 1999·Barbury Castle, Wiltshire·wheat
Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.
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Barbury Castle (2) (Barbury Castle (2))(lp, tier C, score 0.75, rule adjacent_day, pair 3eda80dd)
date 1999-07-23 vs 1999-07-24 (delta -1 d); name tokens shared: barbury, castle; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Reported 23 July 1999 in wheat at Barbury Castle, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 23 July 1999 (day precision)
- place
- Barbury Castle
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 262 ft (79.9 m) across
as written: 80 m | 262 ft - recorded by
- cc
- images
- 1 on the record, 1 attached · 1 diagram
- 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
- 51.485268, -1.786046
- 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, 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 53.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image 99792ec27939 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1999/199907.html |
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.
Barbury Castle, Wiltshire | 23rd July 1999 | Wheat 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 23 July 1999 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair a1ce90b8d59b · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image barbury-castle-wiltshire-23rd-july-1999-wheat-35mm
- date 1999-07-23 vs 1999-07-23 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: barbury, castle
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK19990723_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Barbury Castle, Wiltshire | 23rd July 1999 | Wheat 35mm | 600×428 351.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 1717024f7549 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1999-crop-circles |
Date
23 July 1999, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 23 July 1999
- weekday
- Friday, day 204 of the year, ISO week 29, summer
- sun and moon
- 31.7 days after the June solstice; moon waxing gibbous (78% lit), 5.0 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
- 51.485268, -1.786046 — 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 | 51.485268, -1.786046 place / os_open_names |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- diameter
- 262 ft (79.9 m)
- size as written
- 80 m | 262 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 | UK19990723_A |
| name | Barbury Castle |
| location | |
| county | Wiltshire |
| country | England |
| date reported | 1999-07-23 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | 80 m | 262 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 262 |
| 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/2340def5b2237… raw record view: /formation/cc/2340def5b22375a78cd66cc55dea06ed505e8731be9e35cacab01cced16cf650 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 99792ec2 | ≈ 3-fold score 0.932 | 2 | 3 | 0.933 | 0.7683 |
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 99792ec2— 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
- Play Hatch 22 July 1999, Play Hatch
- next
- Nieuwerkerk 24 July 1999, Nieuwerkerk
- previous in UK
- Play Hatch 22 July 1999
- next in UK
- Oakley 24 July 1999
- same day
- Berkel-Enschot (Berkel-Enschot) · Garsington (Garsington) · Great Everson (Great Everson) · Great Staughton (Great Staughton) · Meonstoke (Meonstoke) · Weymouth (Weymouth) · Wroughton (Wroughton)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Wroughton 23 July 1999, 5.7 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Liddington Castle 21 July 1999, 7.6 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Clatford 19 July 1999, 7.8 km away, 4 day(s) apart · Avebury 29 July 1999, 7.9 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Avebury Stone Avenue 29 July 1999, 7.9 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Avebury Stone Avenue 29 July 1999, 7.9 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Windmill Hill 16 July 1999, 8.5 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Waden Hill 29 July 1999, 8.5 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Silbury Hill 24 July 1999, 9.2 km away, 1 day(s) apart · East Kennett 18 July 1999, 9.4 km away, 5 day(s) apart · East Kennett 21 July 1999, 9.4 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Beckhampton 17 July 1999, 9.5 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Beckhampton 28 July 1999, 9.5 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Cherhill 17 July 1999, 12.8 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 18 July 1999, 14.9 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Stanton St Bernard 21 July 1999, 15.0 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Honeystreet 16 July 1999, 15.5 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Woodborough Hill 20 July 1999, 16.4 km away, 3 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Barbury Castle17 July 1991Barbury Castle
0 m away, 1991-07-17
Barbury Castle1 May 1994Barbury Castle
0 m away, 1994-05-01
Barbury Castle29 May 1994Barbury Castle
0 m away, 1994-05-29
Barbury Castle7 July 1994Barbury Castle
0 m away, 1994-07-07
Barbury Castle15 July 1994Barbury Castle
0 m away, 1994-07-15
Barbury Castle20 April 1997Barbury Castle
0 m away, 1997-04-20
- same county and year
- Lac Simon 23 November 1999 · Alton Barnes 20 March 1999 · Milk Hill 3 April 1999 · Marlborough 12 April 1999 · Bishops Cannings 15 April 1999 · Everleigh 19 April 1999 · Woodborough Hill 30 April 1999 · Milk Hill 2 May 1999 · Avebury Trusloe 23 May 1999 · Barbury Castle 31 May 1999 · Barbury Castle 31 May 1999 · All Cannings 11 June 1999 · Alton Barnes 11 June 1999 · Alton Barnes 11 June 1999 · Chiseldon 11 June 1999 · Figheldean 11 June 1999 · Pewsey White Horse 16 June 1999 · Avebury Trusloe 19 June 1999 · Silbury Hill 19 June 1999 · Furze Hill 20 June 1999 and 71 more
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- 20260915T030325Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- 3eda80dd8e6336cb0f817ba8ca66d81b8f2a5123e03f5df4f0543227c5e10c0f
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19990723_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity f72dbcc3477d · images 2cec5754883a · attachments 39044a83b533 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 1a4e6ce519e1