Sompting
UK20040711_A11 July 2004·Sompting, West Sussex·wheat
Reported 11 July 2004 in wheat at Sompting, West Sussex. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 11 July 2004 (day precision)
- place
- Sompting
West Sussex
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 299 ft (91.1 m) across
as written: 91 m | 299 ft - recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 4 · 1 diagram, 3 other
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
Steep Down Steep Down, nr Sompting
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 50.834067, -0.338054
- 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
4 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 45.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image dfe7ffda417d | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2004/200407.html |
Photographs (3)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | Four crescent arms equidistantly arranged around a central circle. Each 'arm' ends touching a smaller grapeshot circle. | 540×800 49.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 09b02c886b93 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2004/uk2004az.shtml |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | Four crescent arms equidistantly arranged around a central circle. Each 'arm' ends touching a smaller grapeshot circle. (photo 2) | 800×559 75.2 KiB image/jpeg |
image 812a65d05a93 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2004/uk2004az.shtml |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | Four crescent arms equidistantly arranged around a central circle. Each 'arm' ends touching a smaller grapeshot circle. (photo 3) | 800×537 43.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image defa0c0f5bc2 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2004/uk2004az.shtml |
Date
11 July 2004, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 11 July 2004 lp: 11 July 2004
- weekday
- Sunday, day 193 of the year, ISO week 28, summer
- sun and moon
- 20.5 days after the June solstice; moon waning crescent (29% lit), 9.0 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
- 50.834067, -0.338054 — 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 | West Sussex | England | 50.834067, -0.338054 place / os_open_names | |||
| lp | Steep Down, nr Sompting | Sussex | United Kingdom | none |
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.
| field | cc cropcirclecenter.com | lp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk |
|---|---|---|
| id / slug differs | UK20040711_A | steep-down-2004 |
| name differs | Sompting | Steep Down |
| location | Steep Down, nr Sompting | |
| county differs | West Sussex | Sussex |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 2004-07-11 | 2004-07-11 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | wheat | |
| size | 91 m | 299 ft | |
| diameter (ft) | 299 | |
| grid reference | ||
| what3words | ||
| map link | ||
| credits differs | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | Lucy Pringle |
| source page differs | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2004/200407.html | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2004/uk2004az.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2004-07-11 vs 2004-07-11 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: sompting; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2004-07-11 vs 2004-07-11 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: sompting; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | no_formation_page | none |
| record | cc/6d19326d50f53… raw record view: /formation/cc/6d19326d50f53e5bf0840807832f7ad99e7fb29671a7674a5929de529a3fc949 in the preview app |
lp/c8a0c1f343677… raw record view: /formation/lp/c8a0c1f3436774949a2dea406d7ccc98f1be8d951f894706a1a0417169bc0935 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 dfe7ffda | ≈ 4-fold score 0.992 | 1 | 1 | 0.747 | 0.4395 |
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 dfe7ffda— 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
- Pegsdon 10 July 2004, Pegsdon
- next
- Prince George 12 July 2004, Prince George
- previous in UK
- Pegsdon 10 July 2004
- next in UK
- Burham 13 July 2004
- same day
- CH20040711_A · Marene (Marene) · Zlotowo (Zlotowo)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- none, or this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Sompting25 July 1990Sompting
0 m away, 1990-07-25
Sompting24 June 1992Sompting
0 m away, 1992-06-24
SomptingJune 1992Sompting
0 m away, 1992-06
Sompting7 June 1993Sompting
0 m away, 1993-06-07 Sompting23 June 1993
Sompting
0 m away, 1993-06-23
Sompting23 June 1993Sompting
0 m away, 1993-06-23
- same county and year
- Falmer 28 May 2004
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/UK20040711_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 233b5c79e42f · images 22778ae4fad0 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 9768adb6da00