Alton Barnes

Images

5 image(s) on this formation's own source records, and 3 more on 3 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)

diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default

Photographs (4)

other Lucy Pringle page credit other Lucy Pringle page credit other Lucy Pringle page credit other Lucy Pringle page credit

Attached photographs (3)

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.

East Field, Wiltshire | 15th July 2002 | Wheat OH2 35mm

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 15 July 2002 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 841abbba4b50 · decided 2026-09-15T21:14:17Z

• attachment: tt archive_image east-field-wiltshire-15th-july-2002-wheat-oh2-35mm
• date 2002-07-15 vs 2002-07-15 (delta +0 d)
• name tokens shared: east
• alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A)
• county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
• country UK (uk_county) == UK (country_field)
• the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20020715_A)

aerial Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
tt	aerial	Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples	site default	East Field, Wiltshire | 15th July 2002 | Wheat OH2 35mm	600×403 401.5 KiB image/jpeg	image bf18ecea77e5	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2002-crop-circles

East Field, Wiltshire | 15th July 2002 | Wheat OH 35mm

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 15 July 2002 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 2edcc003b581 · decided 2026-09-15T21:14:17Z

• attachment: tt archive_image east-field-wiltshire-15th-july-2002-wheat-oh-35mm
• date 2002-07-15 vs 2002-07-15 (delta +0 d)
• name tokens shared: east
• alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A)
• county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
• country UK (uk_county) == UK (country_field)
• the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20020715_A)

aerial Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
tt	aerial	Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples	site default	East Field, Wiltshire | 15th July 2002 | Wheat OH 35mm	600×403 336.1 KiB image/jpeg	image 8e8a7c08f956	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2002-crop-circles

East Field, Wiltshire | 15th July 2002 | Wheat L MF

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 15 July 2002 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 446b8b77e132 · decided 2026-09-15T21:14:17Z

• attachment: tt archive_image east-field-wiltshire-15th-july-2002-wheat-l-mf
• date 2002-07-15 vs 2002-07-15 (delta +0 d)
• name tokens shared: east
• alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A)
• county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
• country UK (uk_county) == UK (country_field)
• the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20020715_A)

aerial Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
tt	aerial	Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples	site default	East Field, Wiltshire | 15th July 2002 | Wheat L MF	414×600 379.5 KiB image/jpeg	image 95795b116fc1	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2002-crop-circles

Date

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

reported by

cc: 15 July 2002 lp: 15 July 2002

weekday

Monday, day 196 of the year, ISO week 29, summer

sun and moon

23.9 days after the June solstice; moon waxing crescent (31% lit), 8.9 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

Crop and size

crop

wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)

diameter

151 ft (46.0 m)

size as written

46 m | 151 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.

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.

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 eabcf5a3— 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

Exeter 14 July 2002, Exeter

next

Sinsheim 16 July 2002, Sinsheim

previous in UK

Waden Hill 13 July 2002

next in UK

Kelkham 16 July 2002

same day

Heinenoord (Heinenoord) · Sharpenhoe (Sharpenhoe)

within 7 days and 25 km

Alton Barnes 12 July 2002, 0 m away, 3 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 13 July 2002, 0 m away, 2 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 22 July 2002, 0 m away, 7 day(s) apart · Woodborough Hill 18 July 2002, 1.6 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Pewsey 17 July 2002, 6.3 km away, 2 day(s) apart · West Overton 9 July 2002, 6.5 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Waden Hill 13 July 2002, 6.9 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Bishops Cannings 12 July 2002, 7.0 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Avebury 13 July 2002, 7.9 km away, 2 day(s) apart · North Down 18 July 2002, 18.7 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Windmill Hill 18 July 2002, 21.7 km away, 3 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 · Alton Barnes 12 July 2002 · Bishops Cannings 12 July 2002 · Alton Barnes 13 July 2002 · Avebury 13 July 2002 · Waden Hill 13 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

none

entity record

index/formations/UK20020715_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl

input digests

entity f281832fb306 · images 7355f000e49b · attachments 660634e24753 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo fe6991defaa9