Houghton-le-Spring
UK20080807_B7 August 2008·Houghton-le-Spring·wheat
Reported 7 August 2008 in wheat at Houghton-le-Spring. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 7 August 2008 (day precision)
- place
- Houghton-le-Spring
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- not recorded
- recorded by
- cc
- images
- 3 · 2 diagram, 1 aerial
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
Nothing else. No other name or place string appears on any source record for this formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 54.844049, -1.471597
- 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
3 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
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 Houghton-le-Spring | August 07 2008 | 575×415 37.4 KiB image/jpeg |
image 8af50bc2c9ed | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/08/07/UK20080807_B.html |
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 37.4 KiB image/jpeg |
image 8af50bc2c9ed | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2008/200808.html |
Photographs (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | aerial | Rob Webb | image credit | crop circle at Houghton-le-Spring | August 07 2008 | 575×415 61.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image 45cdf92132ff | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/08/07/UK20080807_B.html |
Date
7 August 2008, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 7 August 2008
- weekday
- Thursday, day 220 of the year, ISO week 32, summer
- sun and moon
- 46.2 days before the September equinox; moon waxing crescent (37% lit), 9.4 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
- 54.844049, -1.471597 — 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 | Tyne and Wear | England | 54.844049, -1.471597 place / os_open_names |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- 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 |
|---|---|
| id / slug | UK20080807_B |
| name | Houghton-le-Spring |
| location | |
| county | Tyne and Wear |
| country | England |
| date reported | 2008-08-07 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | |
| diameter (ft) | |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | Rob Webb, cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2008/200808.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | none |
| record | cc/797281b7a5b66… raw record view: /formation/cc/797281b7a5b66e267601e215513e7610f066dca78b96a3250e41f409824d4510 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 8af50bc2 | ≈ none found | 6 | 2 | 0.999 | 0.0769 |
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 8af50bc2— 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
- Oare 6 August 2008, Oare
- next
- Benningbroek 8 August 2008, Benningbroek
- previous in UK
- Oare 6 August 2008
- next in UK
- Bishops Cannings 8 August 2008
- same day
- Cherhill (Cherhill)
- 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.
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13.4 km away, 2013-07-13
- same county and year
- none
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-11T19:20:39Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- none
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK20080807_B.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 660ea7c8729a · images 4ac8d3f41f6c · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo fccf6e7cd590