Alton Priors

Images

2 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)

diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default

Photographs (1)

other Lucy Pringle page credit

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.

South Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 8th August 2003 | Wheat L MF

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 8 August 2003 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 8cd8b5a4cc18 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

• attachment: tt archive_image south-field-alton-barnes-wiltshire-8th-august-2003-wheat-l-mf
• date 2003-08-08 vs 2003-08-08 (delta +0 d)
• name tokens shared: alton
• county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
• country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
• crop wheat == wheat
• the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20030808_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	South Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 8th August 2003 | Wheat L MF	479×600 349.7 KiB image/jpeg	image dbcd9f0a4688	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2003-crop-circles

South Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 8th August 2003 | Wheat OH 35mm

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 8 August 2003 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 53e9eb6657cd · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

• attachment: tt archive_image south-field-alton-barnes-wiltshire-8th-august-2003-wheat-oh-35mm
• date 2003-08-08 vs 2003-08-08 (delta +0 d)
• name tokens shared: alton
• county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
• country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
• crop wheat == wheat
• the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20030808_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	South Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 8th August 2003 | Wheat OH 35mm	600×436 352.9 KiB image/jpeg	image d1729fa7018c	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2003-crop-circles

Date

8 August 2003, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by

cc: 8 August 2003 lp: 8 August 2003

weekday

Friday, day 220 of the year, ISO week 32, summer

sun and moon

45.9 days before the September equinox; moon waxing gibbous (84% lit), 3.7 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

51.359970, -1.842584 — 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

299 ft (91.1 m)

size as written

91 m | 299 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 07d7fbd6— 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

West Overton 7 August 2003, West Overton

next

Novy Malin 9 August 2003, Novy Malin

previous in UK

West Overton 7 August 2003

next in UK

Avebury Stone Avenue 9 August 2003

same day

Revenue (Revenue) · Everleigh (Everleigh)

within 7 days and 25 km

Alton Barnes 1 August 2003, 619 m away, 7 day(s) apart · Milk Hill 3 August 2003, 2.1 km away, 5 day(s) apart · West Overton 7 August 2003, 6.1 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Beckhampton 10 August 2003, 6.9 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Avebury Stone Avenue 9 August 2003, 7.7 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Devizes 5 August 2003, 10.6 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Cherhill 5 August 2003, 10.8 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Everleigh 8 August 2003, 12.9 km away, 0 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

Alton Priors18 July 1991
Alton Priors
0 m away, 1991-07-18 Alton Priors22 August 1991
Alton Priors
0 m away, 1991-08-22 Alton Priors2 July 1992
Alton Priors
0 m away, 1992-07-02 Alton Priors13 May 1995
Alton Priors
0 m away, 1995-05-13 Alton Priors18 June 2000
Alton Priors
0 m away, 2000-06-18 Alton Priors6 August 2001
Alton Priors
0 m away, 2001-08-06

same county and year

All Cannings 26 April 2003 · Cherhill 26 April 2003 · West Overton 21 May 2003 · West Overton May 2003 · Windmill Hill 8 June 2003 · All Cannings 15 June 2003 · Ogbourne St George 15 June 2003 · Milk Hill 17 June 2003 · Windmill Hill 19 June 2003 · Waden Hill 21 June 2003 · West Overton 21 June 2003 · Windmill Hill 22 June 2003 · Stanton St Bernard 24 June 2003 · Avebury Manor 28 June 2003 · Avebury Stone Avenue July 2003 · Marlborough 3 July 2003 · Avebury 6 July 2003 · Beckhampton 6 July 2003 · Avebury Trusloe 13 July 2003 · Woodborough Hill 14 July 2003 and 39 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

61202a6f17521dbb3969350e3a18a22f17085156744c7c566084d36bfde97b57

entity record

index/formations/UK20030808_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl

input digests

entity bff389ae1fae · images c691bf8326b5 · attachments f4116e39d69b · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo a6cc82afffa3