West Down

UK20080728_C

28 July 2008·West Down, Wiltshire·wheat

Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.

tt/35c76064b2985d5949ab98b399ea476942f8f961d7c9b02286cb6ca1ab6f48b8(tt, tier C, score 0.80, rule attach_ambiguous, pair 2ad3ff9b)
attachment: tt archive_image west-down-beckhampton-wiltshire-28th-july-2008-wheat-oh; date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: west; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id); crop wheat == wheat; the photograph's date and place fit 2 entities (UK20080728_A, UK20080728_C); accepting one attaches it there and leaves the others unattached, so the competitors need no rejection
Beckhampton (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.80, rule ambiguous, pair 31b204e2)
date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: beckhampton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field); not the unique tier-B candidate for both records (queued together)
tt/8e639ace2393add217ad183116b05cf915212c45c9885360da6f9980f34c7127(tt, tier C, score 0.80, rule attach_ambiguous, pair 9ed30afa)
attachment: tt archive_image knoll-down-beckhampton-wiltshire-28th-july-2008-wheat; date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); place tokens shared: beckhampton; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (uk_county) == UK (country_field); the photograph's date and place fit 3 entities (UK20080728_A, UK20080728_C, x-lp-f06117ed53c5); accepting one attaches it there and leaves the others unattached, so the competitors need no rejection
Martinsell Hill (Wiltshire)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 0fca8a4e)
date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Knoll Down (Knoll Down)(lp, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 82b8cda6)
date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)

aerial of West Down — **Steve Alexander** (image credit) · aerial published by cropcirclecenter.com — crop circle at West Down | July 28 2008. One of 4 images on this record.

other of West Down — **Steve Alexander** (image credit) · aerial published by cropcirclecenter.com — crop circle at West Down | July 28 2008. One of 4 images on this record.

Reported 28 July 2008 in wheat at West Down, Wiltshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.

The record

date: 28 July 2008 (day precision)
place: West Down
Wiltshire
England
crop: wheat
size: not recorded
recorded by: cc lp
images: 4 · 2 diagram, 1 aerial, 1 other
writing: nothing was written about this formation on any source

Also called

West Down, nr Beckhampton

Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.

Where exactly

coordinate: 51.196835, -2.094677
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 (2)

diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
cc	diagram	cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder	site default	crop circle at West Down \| July 28 2008	575×415 49.2 KiB image/jpeg	image 0cc6dad6cc5b	https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/07/28/UK20080728_C.html
cc	diagram	cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder	site default		575×415 49.2 KiB image/jpeg	image 0cc6dad6cc5b	https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2008/200807.html

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diagram

cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder

site default

crop circle at West Down | July 28 2008

575×415
49.2 KiB image/jpeg

image 0cc6dad6cc5b

https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/07/28/UK20080728_C.html

diagram

cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder

site default

575×415
49.2 KiB image/jpeg

image 0cc6dad6cc5b

https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2008/200807.html

Photographs (2)

aerial Steve Alexander image credit

other Lucy Pringle page credit

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
cc	aerial	Steve Alexander	image credit	crop circle at West Down \| July 28 2008	575×415 87.9 KiB image/jpeg	image 72c03ff05d3f	https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/07/28/UK20080728_C.html
lp	other	Lucy Pringle	page credit	A flattened ring containing four standing segments divided by thin paths.	800×584 109.1 KiB image/jpeg	image 78129442e969	https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2008/uk2008bp.shtml

site

kind

credit

basis

caption

size

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aerial

Steve Alexander

image credit

crop circle at West Down | July 28 2008

575×415
87.9 KiB image/jpeg

image 72c03ff05d3f

https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/07/28/UK20080728_C.html

other

Lucy Pringle

page credit

A flattened ring containing four standing segments divided by thin paths.

800×584
109.1 KiB image/jpeg

image 78129442e969

https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2008/uk2008bp.shtml

Date

28 July 2008, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by: cc: 28 July 2008 lp: 28 July 2008
weekday: Monday, day 210 of the year, ISO week 31, summer
sun and moon: 37.5 days after the June solstice; moon waning crescent (21% lit), 10.2 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: 51.196835, -2.094677 — 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			51.196835, -2.094677 place / os_open_names
lp	West Down, nr Beckhampton	Wiltshire	United Kingdom			none

site

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fix

Wiltshire

England

51.196835, -2.094677 place / os_open_names

West Down, nr Beckhampton

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 UK20080728_C west-down-2008

name West Down West Down

location West Down, nr Beckhampton

county Wiltshire Wiltshire

country differs England United Kingdom

date reported 2008-07-28 2008-07-28

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/2008/200807.html https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2008/uk2008bp.shtml

link to the entity rule Bscore 0.90
decided by rule on 2026-09-15
date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: west; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) rule Bscore 0.90
decided by rule on 2026-09-15
date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: west; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)

warnings none none

record cc/e0658af29c468…
raw record view: /formation/cc/e0658af29c468a383420ce03b5c41778f5ac3f7795ae6944a1f808843b7ea40a in the preview app lp/c5b7426d90796…
raw record view: /formation/lp/c5b7426d90796c2a4351091b6d4070a1416ee3537e700f2c3b06f6ae1c42de92 in the preview app

field	cc cropcirclecenter.com	lp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk
id / slug differs	UK20080728_C	west-down-2008
name	West Down	West Down
location		West Down, nr Beckhampton
county	Wiltshire	Wiltshire
country differs	England	United Kingdom
date reported	2008-07-28	2008-07-28
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/2008/200807.html	https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2008/uk2008bp.shtml
link to the entity	rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: west; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)	rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2008-07-28 vs 2008-07-28 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: west; county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
warnings	none	none
record	cc/e0658af29c468… raw record view: `/formation/cc/e0658af29c468a383420ce03b5c41778f5ac3f7795ae6944a1f808843b7ea40a` in the preview app	lp/c5b7426d90796… raw record view: `/formation/lp/c5b7426d90796c2a4351091b6d4070a1416ee3537e700f2c3b06f6ae1c42de92` 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 0cc6dad6	≈ 4-fold score 0.94	1	2	0.943	0.5583

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 0cc6dad6— 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: Martinsell Hill 27 July 2008, Martinsell Hill
next: High Kingthorpe 29 July 2008, High Kingthorpe
previous in UK: Martinsell Hill 27 July 2008
next in UK: High Kingthorpe 29 July 2008
same day: Duncan (Duncan) · Beckhampton (Beckhampton) · Martinsell Hill (Martinsell Hill) · Knoll Down (Knoll Down)
within 7 days and 25 km: Honeystreet 27 July 2008, 24.2 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Honeystreet 27 July 2008, 24.2 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Alton Barnes 27 July 2008, 24.6 km away, 1 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

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Heytesbury
1.7 km away, 1950 Heytesbury1950s
Heytesbury
1.7 km away, 1950

Heytesbury15 July 1988
Heytesbury
1.7 km away, 1988-07-15 Heytesbury15 May 1989
Heytesbury
1.7 km away, 1989-05-15 Heytesbury4 June 1989
Heytesbury
1.7 km away, 1989-06-04

Heytesbury4 June 1989
Heytesbury
1.7 km away, 1989-06-04

same county and year: Waden Hill 19 April 2008 · Stanton St Bernard 4 May 2008 · Avebury Stone Circle 8 May 2008 · Hackpen Hill 24 May 2008 · Barbury Castle 1 June 2008 · Temple 1 June 2008 · West Kennett 6 June 2008 · West Kennett 9 June 2008 · North Down 10 June 2008 · Avebury 15 June 2008 · Avebury 16 June 2008 · Winterbourne Bassett 18 June 2008 · Furze Knoll 20 June 2008 · Avebury 24 June 2008 · All Cannings 30 June 2008 · Avebury 1 July 2008 · Stanton Bridge 4 July 2008 · Burderop 6 July 2008 · East Kennett 8 July 2008 · Alton Barnes 9 July 2008 and 58 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: 0fca8a4ed7719cfc83f864ef294abbc2d5684f7a7366c2431b76a6d4d881f405, 2ad3ff9be157f0f22a0a98a23120be5bb93bf92475a4fe659353bfe29e858136, 31b204e2a2a22edd9f3acef79bf027083f9075e9401fb1f6d1399d6f9a9baa4b, 82b8cda6b4ab0ccaf8318bbf0a526f2ed212067740781e37f6e4cec9d43702d6, 9ed30afa9b05ec6f367826d485932759c5fb21884e0fcb5aaa912c017464580c
entity record: index/formations/UK20080728_C.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests: entity b9da2db4507b · images bd9b1f98b2aa · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 4fabb47c3267