Alton Barnes
UK20020814_A14 August 2002·Alton Barnes, Wiltshire·wheat
Reported 14 August 2002 in wheat at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 14 August 2002 (day precision)
- place
- Alton Barnes
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 200 ft (61.0 m) across
as written: 61 m | 200 ft - recorded by
- cc
- images
- 1 on the record, 3 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
- 51.357372, -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
1 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 61.4 KiB image/jpeg |
image 921055ccd420 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2002/200208.html |
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 | 14th August 2002 | Wheat L 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 14 August 2002 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 1f099694e65b · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image east-field-wiltshire-14th-august-2002-wheat-l-35mm
- date 2002-08-14 vs 2002-08-14 (delta +0 d)
- alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A)
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20020814_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | East Field, Wiltshire | 14th August 2002 | Wheat L 35mm | 403×600 282.4 KiB image/jpeg |
image 2107e0be7e6a | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2002-crop-circles |
East Field, Wiltshire| 14th August 2002 | Wheat OH 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 14 August 2002 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair cf67c4ef48f2 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image east-field-wiltshire-14th-august-2002-wheat-oh-35mm
- date 2002-08-14 vs 2002-08-14 (delta +0 d)
- alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A)
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20020814_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | East Field, Wiltshire| 14th August 2002 | Wheat OH 35mm | 600×428 320.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image bdba9fe4e61c | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2002-crop-circles |
East Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 14th August 2002 | Wheat CL 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 14 August 2002 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 508776bc5c89 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image east-field-alton-barnes-wiltshire-14th-august-2002-wheat-cl-35mm
- date 2002-08-14 vs 2002-08-14 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: alton, barnes
- alias alton barnes ~ east (anchor UK20160722_A)
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
- crop wheat == wheat
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20020814_A)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | East Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 14th August 2002 | Wheat CL 35mm | 800×516 574.3 KiB image/jpeg |
image 7bfab735d465 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2002-crop-circles |
Date
14 August 2002, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 14 August 2002
- weekday
- Wednesday, day 226 of the year, ISO week 33, summer
- sun and moon
- 39.7 days before the September equinox; moon waxing crescent (40% lit), 8.4 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 |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- diameter
- 200 ft (61.0 m)
- size as written
- 61 m | 200 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 | UK20020814_A |
| name | Alton Barnes |
| location | |
| county | Wiltshire |
| country | England |
| date reported | 2002-08-14 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | 61 m | 200 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 200 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2002/200208.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/a7d68553a0d7e… raw record view: /formation/cc/a7d68553a0d7ed6871766c606d4ffc4de054ad53db9ec6de523954f55aa60676 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 921055cc | ≈ 2-fold score 0.977 | 5 | 5 | 0.964 | 0.2941 |
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 921055cc— 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
- East Field 12 August 2002, East Field
- next
- Crabwood 15 August 2002, Crabwood
- previous in UK
- East Field 12 August 2002
- next in UK
- Crabwood 15 August 2002
- same day
- Colts Neck (Colts Neck)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- West Stowell 15 August 2002, 3.2 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Chirton 7 August 2002, 5.7 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Etchilhampton 11 August 2002, 6.1 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Avebury 18 August 2002, 7.9 km away, 4 day(s) apart · Avebury 18 August 2002, 7.9 km away, 4 day(s) apart · Nursteed 11 August 2002, 8.7 km away, 3 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1970
Alton Barnes10 September 1988Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1988-09-10
Alton Barnes12 July 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-07-12
Alton BarnesAugust 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-08 Alton Barnes18 April 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-04-18
Alton Barnes2 July 1991Alton 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 · Alton Barnes 15 July 2002 and 50 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
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK20020814_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 7a3f649f2fdb · images 61b95757a5fe · attachments 0e18fc2d8244 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo f928ceab74dd