Alton Barnes

UK20020712_A

12 July 2002·Alton Barnes, Wiltshire·wheat

Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.

East Field (East Field, Alton Barnes)(lp, tier C, score 0.75, rule adjacent_day, pair 25c47429)
date 2002-07-12 vs 2002-07-13 (delta -1 d); place tokens shared: alton, barnes; alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Alton Barnes (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.75, rule adjacent_day, pair b7b38387)
date 2002-07-13 vs 2002-07-12 (delta +1 d); place tokens shared: alton, barnes; alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Bishops Cannings (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 4c546568)
date 2002-07-12 vs 2002-07-12 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Bishops Canning (Bishops Canning)(lp, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 6496e810)
date 2002-07-12 vs 2002-07-12 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)

other of Alton Barnes — **Lucy Pringle** (page credit) · other published by cropcirclephotographs.co.uk — A 1990's style pictogram representing the formation in the movie poster for the forthcoming 'Signs' film, topped off by some Micky Mouse ears at one end. Most likely a hoax.. One of 2 images on this record.

diagram of Alton Barnes — **Lucy Pringle** (page credit) · other published by cropcirclephotographs.co.uk — A 1990's style pictogram representing the formation in the movie poster for the forthcoming 'Signs' film, topped off by some Micky Mouse ears at one end. Most likely a hoax.. One of 2 images on this record.

Reported 12 July 2002 in wheat at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.

The record

date: 12 July 2002 (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 Barnes

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)

diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
cc	diagram	cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder	site default		575×415 40.8 KiB image/jpeg	image 3fd7861a8614	https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2002/200207.html

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cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder

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575×415
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image 3fd7861a8614

https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2002/200207.html

Photographs (1)

other Lucy Pringle page credit

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
lp	other	Lucy Pringle	page credit	A 1990's style pictogram representing the formation in the movie poster for the forthcoming 'Signs' film, topped off by some Micky Mouse ears at one end. Most likely a hoax.	400×620 42.1 KiB image/jpeg	image 917f86564375	https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2002/uk2002bi.shtml

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Lucy Pringle

page credit

A 1990's style pictogram representing the formation in the movie poster for the forthcoming 'Signs' film, topped off by some Micky Mouse ears at one end. Most likely a hoax.

400×620
42.1 KiB image/jpeg

image 917f86564375

https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2002/uk2002bi.shtml

Date

12 July 2002, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by: cc: 12 July 2002 lp: 12 July 2002
weekday: Friday, day 193 of the year, ISO week 28, summer
sun and moon: 20.9 days after the June solstice; moon waxing crescent (6% lit), 11.9 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 Barnes	Wiltshire	United Kingdom			none

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Wiltshire

England

51.357372, -1.850463 place / os_open_names

East Field, Alton Barnes

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 UK20020712_A east-field-2002

name differs Alton Barnes East Field

location East Field, Alton Barnes

county Wiltshire Wiltshire

country differs England United Kingdom

date reported 2002-07-12 2002-07-12

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/2002/200207.html https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2002/uk2002bi.shtml

link to the entity rule Bscore 0.90
decided by rule on 2026-09-15
date 2002-07-12 vs 2002-07-12 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: alton, barnes; 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 2002-07-12 vs 2002-07-12 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: alton, barnes; alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)

warnings no_formation_page none

record cc/a085236f1c98b…
raw record view: /formation/cc/a085236f1c98be229a5dff85f5af6b9f47acb1e66286a3ce99a6652e2588e0d8 in the preview app lp/fc1105b586dae…
raw record view: /formation/lp/fc1105b586dae36f3a01f6e2654eea752f94eceaddcaec1f1ba26d2d17db3d93 in the preview app

field	cc cropcirclecenter.com	lp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk
id / slug differs	UK20020712_A	east-field-2002
name differs	Alton Barnes	East Field
location		East Field, Alton Barnes
county	Wiltshire	Wiltshire
country differs	England	United Kingdom
date reported	2002-07-12	2002-07-12
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/2002/200207.html	https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2002/uk2002bi.shtml
link to the entity	rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2002-07-12 vs 2002-07-12 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: alton, barnes; 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 2002-07-12 vs 2002-07-12 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: alton, barnes; alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
warnings	no_formation_page	none
record	cc/a085236f1c98b… raw record view: `/formation/cc/a085236f1c98be229a5dff85f5af6b9f47acb1e66286a3ce99a6652e2588e0d8` in the preview app	lp/fc1105b586dae… raw record view: `/formation/lp/fc1105b586dae36f3a01f6e2654eea752f94eceaddcaec1f1ba26d2d17db3d93` 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 3fd7861a	≈ none found	6	1	0.977	0.0841

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 3fd7861a— 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: Lipa 11 July 2002, Lipa
next: Erin 13 July 2002, Erin
previous in UK: West Overton 10 July 2002
next in UK: Alton Barnes 13 July 2002
same day: Langnau (Langnau) · Bishops Cannings (Bishops Cannings) · Chudleigh (Chudleigh)
within 7 days and 25 km: Alton Barnes 13 July 2002, 0 m away, 1 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 15 July 2002, 0 m away, 3 day(s) apart · Woodborough Hill 18 July 2002, 1.6 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Pewsey 17 July 2002, 6.3 km away, 5 day(s) apart · West Overton 9 July 2002, 6.5 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Waden Hill 13 July 2002, 6.9 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Bishops Cannings 12 July 2002, 7.0 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Avebury 13 July 2002, 7.9 km away, 1 day(s) apart · North Down 18 July 2002, 18.7 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Windmill Hill 18 July 2002, 21.7 km away, 6 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

Alton Barnes1970
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1970

Alton Barnes10 September 1988
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1988-09-10

Alton Barnes12 July 1990
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-07-12

Alton BarnesAugust 1990
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-08 Alton Barnes18 April 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-04-18

Alton Barnes2 July 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-07-02

same county and year: North Down 6 May 2002 · Avebury Trusloe 2 June 2002 · Silbury Hill 4 June 2002 · Avebury Manor 18 June 2002 · Waden Hill 21 June 2002 · Avebury 22 June 2002 · West Overton 23 June 2002 · UK20020633_A June 2002 · West Kennett 1 July 2002 · West Kennett 1 July 2002 · Beckhampton 2 July 2002 · Beckhampton 2 July 2002 · Stonehenge 4 July 2002 · West Overton 9 July 2002 · Bishops Cannings 12 July 2002 · Alton Barnes 13 July 2002 · Avebury 13 July 2002 · Waden Hill 13 July 2002 · Alton Barnes 15 July 2002 · Pewsey 17 July 2002 and 50 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: 25c47429fdd1a5215642e2bf6536d88d1f90e2f457cb3ebd184a8d7811282730, 4c5465684b5c5ecf51bd7b5cde2fb34e1f99d2884a7a98455c709c6427f6281c, 6496e810840967fa601802c309ce3670644b5be105a08832532ef062126a6c37, b7b38387f5fb3e2fb7beded046f18574de05c5934d12848e99ccd5f29fbb8d86
entity record: index/formations/UK20020712_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests: entity bbb20bd7d474 · images b3b75471e114 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo b71eed921413