Ditchling Beacon
UK20010727_A27 July 2001·Ditchling Beacon, West Sussex·wheat
Reported 27 July 2001 in wheat at Ditchling Beacon, West Sussex. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 27 July 2001 (day precision)
- place
- Ditchling Beacon
West Sussex
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 249 ft (75.9 m) across
as written: 76 m | 249 ft - recorded by
- cc
- images
- 1 · 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
- 50.901985, -0.107200
- 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 53.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image b0968542d71b | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2001/200107.html |
Date
27 July 2001, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 27 July 2001
- weekday
- Friday, day 208 of the year, ISO week 30, summer
- sun and moon
- 36.2 days after the June solstice; moon first quarter (51% lit), 7.7 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
- 50.901985, -0.107200 — 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 | West Sussex | England | 50.901985, -0.107200 place / os_open_names |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- diameter
- 249 ft (75.9 m)
- size as written
- 76 m | 249 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 | UK20010727_A |
| name | Ditchling Beacon |
| location | |
| county | West Sussex |
| country | England |
| date reported | 2001-07-27 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | 76 m | 249 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 249 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2001/200107.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/9fc2de5a53a12… raw record view: /formation/cc/9fc2de5a53a127bc706560e7c3f1136578200e859a3d5cbac8e7c31f5437ffd3 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 b0968542 | ≈ none found | 5 | 1 | 0.823 | 0.1813 |
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 b0968542— 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
- Elst 26 July 2001, Elst
- next
- Beckhampton 28 July 2001, Beckhampton
- previous in UK
- Gog Magogs Hill 25 July 2001
- next in UK
- Beckhampton 28 July 2001
- same day
- Patcham (Patcham) · Staddiscombe (Staddiscombe)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Patcham 27 July 2001, 5.1 km away, 0 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Ditchling Beacon
0 m away, 1994-07-26
Westmeston6 June 1990Westmeston
832 m away, 1990-06-06
Clayton18 August 1991Clayton
2.9 km away, 1991-08-18
Clayton18 August 1991Clayton
2.9 km away, 1991-08-18
Tegdown Hill6 August 2003Tegdown Hill
3.1 km away, 2003-08-06
Tegdown Hill9 May 2004Tegdown Hill
3.1 km away, 2004-05-09
- same county and year
- South Harting 23 June 2001 · South Harting 27 June 2001 · Bury Hill 5 August 2001 · Shoreham 19 August 2001
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/UK20010727_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity a8246cf9c366 · images 5c01d7592d21 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo f00092c6552c