Marden
UK20050820_A20 August 2005·Marden, Wiltshire·wheat
Reported 20 August 2005 in wheat at Marden, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 20 August 2005 (day precision)
- place
- Marden
Wiltshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- not recorded
- recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 7 · 2 diagram, 1 aerial, 4 other
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
Marden (2) Marden (2), nr Chirton
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.320913, -1.875751
- 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
7 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 (2)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | crop circle at Marden | August 20 2005 | 575×415 67.3 KiB image/jpeg |
image b5e7e2dccfb5 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2005/08/20/UK20050820_A.html |
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 67.3 KiB image/jpeg |
image b5e7e2dccfb5 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2005/200508.html |
Photographs (5)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | aerial | Steve Alexander | image credit | crop circle at Marden | August 20 2005 | 575×415 412.3 KiB image/jpeg |
image 812476a83b9e | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2005/08/20/UK20050820_A.html |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | An 'eye' shaped formation containing a number of standing 'diamonds' in a circular arrangement. | 821×543 76.4 KiB image/jpeg |
image 26c01d04c4e5 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2005/uk2005cs.shtml |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | An 'eye' shaped formation containing a number of standing 'diamonds' in a circular arrangement. (photo 2) | 598×889 109.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image e47729d113f3 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2005/uk2005cs.shtml |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | An 'eye' shaped formation containing a number of standing 'diamonds' in a circular arrangement. (photo 3) | 588×811 55.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 07e26b4a11d4 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2005/uk2005cs.shtml |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | An 'eye' shaped formation containing a number of standing 'diamonds' in a circular arrangement. (photo 4) | 598×882 75.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image c09544daf5b3 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2005/uk2005cs.shtml |
Date
20 August 2005, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 20 August 2005 lp: 20 August 2005
- weekday
- Saturday, day 232 of the year, ISO week 33, summer
- sun and moon
- 33.4 days before the September equinox; moon full (99% lit), 0.8 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
- 51.320913, -1.875751 — 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 | 51.320913, -1.875751 place / os_open_names | |||
| lp | Marden (2), nr Chirton | Wiltshire | United Kingdom | none |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat, lp: —)
- diameter
- not recorded by any source
- size as written
- not recorded
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 | UK20050820_A | marden-2-2005 |
| name differs | Marden | Marden (2) |
| location | Marden (2), nr Chirton | |
| county | Wiltshire | Wiltshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 2005-08-20 | 2005-08-20 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | wheat | |
| size | ||
| diameter (ft) | ||
| grid reference | ||
| what3words | ||
| map link | ||
| credits differs | Steve Alexander, cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | Lucy Pringle |
| source page differs | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2005/200508.html | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2005/uk2005cs.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2005-08-20 vs 2005-08-20 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: marden; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2005-08-20 vs 2005-08-20 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: marden; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | none | none |
| record | cc/61d68bc300b73… raw record view: /formation/cc/61d68bc300b73182d11e5b7b3680c20e369109ba0734d188c6c7c040413ab4ee in the preview app |
lp/b6078297b42a5… raw record view: /formation/lp/b6078297b42a5d1db1b46644fd74a50e81b910df5da496f0f06e4cdc2c4384df 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
2 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 b5e7e2dc | ≈ 2-fold score 0.981 | 1 | 5 | 0.977 | 0.345 |
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 b5e7e2dc— 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
- Northwood 19 August 2005, Northwood
- next
- Alton Priors 21 August 2005, Alton Priors
- previous in UK
- Weston Turnville 15 August 2005
- next in UK
- Alton Priors 21 August 2005
- same day
- Meopham (Meopham)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Alton Priors 21 August 2005, 4.9 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Cherhill 21 August 2005, 13.2 km away, 1 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Marden
0 m away, 1991-05-27
Marden Henge
0 m away, 2013-08-23
Chirton
1.5 km away, 2002-08-07
Chirton
1.5 km away, 2005-08-09
Chirton
1.5 km away, 2011-07-27
Chirton
1.5 km away, 2013-07-31
- same county and year
- Alton Barnes 1 May 2005 · Cherhill 10 May 2005 · Milk Hill 29 May 2005 · Beckhampton 5 June 2005 · Milk Hill 11 June 2005 · Clatford Bottom 12 June 2005 · Monkton Down 20 June 2005 · Shrewton 20 June 2005 · Lockeridge 22 June 2005 · Lurkeley Hill 22 June 2005 · Avebury Trusloe 23 June 2005 · Rockley Down 23 June 2005 · Silbury Hill 26 June 2005 · Alton Barnes 3 July 2005 · Devizes 3 July 2005 · Silbury Hill 9 July 2005 · Waden Hill 16 July 2005 · Milk Hill 17 July 2005 · Alton Barnes 18 July 2005 · Savernake Forest 19 July 2005 and 20 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/UK20050820_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity f146fc31abdc · images 562a8ba13f87 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo c4032dd7e42c