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Avebury Stone Circle

UK20020728_B

28 July 2002·Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire·wheat

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

  • Cherhill (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 034c86d2)
    date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
  • Beckhampton (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 254856c1)
    date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
  • Etchilhampton (1) (Etchilhampton (1))(lp, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 2835c171)
    date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
  • Etchilhampton (2) (Etchilhampton (2))(lp, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 2d55df48)
    date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
  • Lockeridge (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 91bcfd78)
    date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
  • Cherhill Down (Cherhill Down)(lp, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair d4358e37)
    date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
  • Etchilhampton (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair e43ff584)
    date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
  • Etchilhampton (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair fc4d650d)
    date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Lucy Pringle (page credit) · other published by cropcirclephotographs.co.uk — A large design consisting of several circles and semi-circular paths giving a kind of nested 'comet' type design.. One of 4 images on this record.

Reported 28 July 2002 in wheat at Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.

The record

date
28 July 2002 (day precision)
place
Avebury Stone Circle
Wiltshire
England
crop
wheat
size
249 ft (75.9 m) across
as written: 76 m | 249 ft
recorded by
cc lp
images
4 on the record, 2 attached · 1 diagram, 3 other
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
76 m across100 m

Also called

Avebury

Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.

Where exactly

coordinate
51.428367, -1.855137
how it was got
os open names
place, to within 2,000 m, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
Adam's GraveAveburyBarbury Castle5 km

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

4 image(s) on this formation's own source records, and 2 more on 2 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)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
cc diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
53.6 KiB image/jpeg
image 6f754d4ea58a https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2002/200207.html

Photographs (3)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
lp other Lucy Pringle page credit A large design consisting of several circles and semi-circular paths giving a kind of nested 'comet' type design. 620×453
42.7 KiB image/jpeg
image db8dc9e679ad https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2002/uk2002cl.shtml
lp other Lucy Pringle page credit A closeup of the formation showing the detail. (photo 2) 392×620
41.4 KiB image/jpeg
image c9f2c012b5ec https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2002/uk2002cl.shtml
lp other Lucy Pringle page credit A distant view showing Avebury village in the background. (photo 3) 600×527
39.9 KiB image/jpeg
image 68ff92526895 https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2002/uk2002cl.shtml

Attached photographs (2)

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.

Avebury Henge, Wiltshire | 28th July 2002 | Wheat MFA3

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 28 July 2002 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 3e326eb29abf · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

  • attachment: tt archive_image avebury-henge-wiltshire-28th-july-2002-wheat-mfa3
  • date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d)
  • name tokens shared: avebury
  • alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A)
  • county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
  • country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
  • crop wheat == wheat
  • the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20020728_B)
sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
tt other Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default Avebury Henge, Wiltshire | 28th July 2002 | Wheat MFA3 440×600
352.4 KiB image/jpeg
image 3af75472d8aa https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2002-crop-circles

Avebury Henge, Wiltshire | 28th July 2002 | Wheat OH 35mm

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 28 July 2002 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 983a1de7ca98 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

  • attachment: tt archive_image avebury-henge-wiltshire-28th-july-2002-wheat-oh-35mm
  • date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d)
  • name tokens shared: avebury
  • alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A)
  • county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
  • country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
  • crop wheat == wheat
  • the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20020728_B)
sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
tt aerial Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default Avebury Henge, Wiltshire | 28th July 2002 | Wheat OH 35mm 600×397
340.0 KiB image/jpeg
image c3a564881f82 https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2002-crop-circles

Date

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

reported by
cc: 28 July 2002 lp: 28 July 2002
weekday
Sunday, day 209 of the year, ISO week 30, summer
sun and moon
36.9 days after the June solstice; moon waning gibbous (84% lit), 4.1 days after 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
51.428367, -1.855137 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWiltshireEngland 51.428367, -1.855137 place / os_open_names
lpAveburyWiltshireUnited Kingdom none

Crop and size

crop
wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)
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.comlp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk
id / slug differs UK20020728_B avebury-2002
name differs Avebury Stone Circle Avebury
location Avebury
county Wiltshire Wiltshire
country differs England United Kingdom
date reported 2002-07-28 2002-07-28
date precision day day
crop wheat
size 76 m | 249 ft
diameter (ft) 249
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/uk2002cl.shtml
link to the entity rule Bscore 0.90
decided by rule on 2026-09-15
date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: avebury; alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
rule Bscore 0.90
decided by rule on 2026-09-15
date 2002-07-28 vs 2002-07-28 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: avebury; alias avebury stone ~ avebury (anchor UK20260714_A); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
warnings no_formation_pagenone
record cc/d69882aafec67…
raw record view: /formation/cc/d69882aafec677344d4024ccd8951e0e6eaa0a04cd449be9bdf0e1a0b6d4dc67 in the preview app
lp/f44a5004b9df5…
raw record view: /formation/lp/f44a5004b9df5beb58200b00eb756a5aeb2e3621fb52ef61265af9e5d6ed6e9f 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.

diagramrotational symmetryelementsringsmirrorfill
cc 6f754d4e ≈ 2-fold score 0.984 13 3 0.781 0.5928

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 6f754d4e— 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
Dodworth 27 July 2002, Dodworth
next
Benteley 29 July 2002, Benteley
previous in UK
Dodworth 27 July 2002
next in UK
Benteley 29 July 2002
same day
Andover (Andover) · Beckhampton (Beckhampton) · Cherhill (Cherhill) · Etchilhampton (Etchilhampton) · Etchilhampton (Etchilhampton) · Garsington (Garsington) · Lockeridge (Lockeridge) · Weyhill (Weyhill) · Etchilhampton (2) (Etchilhampton (2)) · Etchilhampton (1) (Etchilhampton (1))
within 7 days and 25 km
Beckhampton 28 July 2002, 1.6 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Lockeridge 28 July 2002, 5.1 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Cherhill 28 July 2002, 6.5 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 22 July 2002, 7.9 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Barbury Castle 24 July 2002, 7.9 km away, 4 day(s) apart · Etchilhampton 28 July 2002, 11.1 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Etchilhampton 28 July 2002, 11.1 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Etchilhampton August 2002, 11.1 km away · Windmill Hill 3 August 2002, 13.8 km away, 6 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

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 · Alton Barnes 15 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
20260915T030325Z-index-build, 20260915T211417Z-index-build
reviews applied
none
open queue pairs
034c86d2df32267f8a6ce0ab39c4a5468ba4ffe9fcb34b86075bd32e7b95a249, 254856c1a6ebeb7d8f33f82fe6ac07a9c4a538f3a12b571f871cf2658b07a8e0, 2835c171c083ac3b05d273083b0a50a5ba741c9ca0363acbbf2b67be607565b5, 2d55df4815682c96028910589105ded24881514587866a67c26e943d60f163bb, 91bcfd78acf633e8fd5c2afc8381848fd4d5a65a852c5f7aa2350bdd1fa46dfe, d4358e37251cf307033f1cac3474f4676f6e3ecf531a6a9b4e5c46781cb7f7dc, e43ff584e2b640d8463ab9611276b98602c188743eddf78370177e07c8ee6554, fc4d650da8a78faa658cfeb8d996dfa47b09bce1d3bfb8c32ca78a0a3839f609
entity record
index/formations/UK20020728_B.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 3b5006c9c1b1 · images 1ad1e786c568 · attachments d81a2fef4fe3 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 8e6aa004ad0a