Alton Priors

Images

5 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 (2)

diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default

Photographs (3)

aerial Steve Alexander image credit other Lucy Pringle page credit 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.

East Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 21st August 2005 | Wheat OH

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 21 August 2005 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair a2aeff7eb579 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

• attachment: tt archive_image east-field-alton-barnes-wiltshire-21st-august-2005-wheat-oh
• date 2005-08-21 vs 2005-08-21 (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 (UK20050821_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	East Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 21st August 2005 | Wheat OH	600×429 460.6 KiB image/jpeg	image 5a40260d08e8	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2005-crop-circles

East Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 21st August 2005 | Wheat L

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 21 August 2005 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 85441d31543d · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

• attachment: tt archive_image east-field-alton-barnes-wiltshire-21st-august-2005-wheat-l
• date 2005-08-21 vs 2005-08-21 (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 (UK20050821_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	East Field Alton Barnes, Wiltshire | 21st August 2005 | Wheat L	429×600 409.0 KiB image/jpeg	image c050fe9b0f23	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2005-crop-circles

Date

21 August 2005, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by

cc: 21 August 2005 lp: 21 August 2005

weekday

Sunday, day 233 of the year, ISO week 33, summer

sun and moon

32.4 days before the September equinox; moon waning gibbous (95% lit), 1.8 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

51.359970, -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

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.

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.

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 81ad8510— 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

Meopham 20 August 2005, Meopham

next

Dachstadt 25 August 2005, Dachstadt

previous in UK

Meopham 20 August 2005

next in UK

Cherhill 28 August 2005

same day

Cherhill (Cherhill) · Coles County (Coles County)

within 7 days and 25 km

Marden 20 August 2005, 4.9 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Cherhill 21 August 2005, 10.8 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Cherhill 28 August 2005, 10.8 km away, 7 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

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

20260915T030325Z-index-build, 20260915T211417Z-index-build

reviews applied

none

open queue pairs

9372ea1e161761bccfcb2a3356d16d3c145ef3ca40c6dc49675443207ad2f1c6, bf9264bdc9a08564d7f332170b77dc3f02cafe56427679cec91b9f40751038a4

entity record

index/formations/UK20050821_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl

input digests

entity 05fcd1daaa9e · images 5b1556b10a46 · attachments e6b153b4d51e · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 36e61d42a713