Alton Barnes
UK20080825_A25 August 2008·Alton Barnes, Wiltshire·wheat
Reported 25 August 2008 in wheat at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 25 August 2008 (day precision)
- place
- Alton Barnes
Wiltshire
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
- 51.357372, -1.850463
- 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 Alton Barnes | August 25 2008 | 575×415 67.5 KiB image/jpeg |
image c50cf63bc7f2 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/08/25/UK20080825_A.html |
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 67.5 KiB image/jpeg |
image c50cf63bc7f2 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2008/200808.html |
Photographs (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | aerial | Peter Sorensen | image credit | crop circle at Alton Barnes | August 25 2008 | 575×415 92.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 79419c9c7bbc | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/08/25/UK20080825_A.html |
Date
25 August 2008, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 25 August 2008
- weekday
- Monday, day 238 of the year, ISO week 35, summer
- sun and moon
- 28.2 days before the September equinox; moon waning crescent (33% lit), 8.6 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
- 51.357372, -1.850463 — 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 | 51.357372, -1.850463 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 | UK20080825_A |
| name | Alton Barnes |
| location | |
| county | Wiltshire |
| country | England |
| date reported | 2008-08-25 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | |
| diameter (ft) | |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | Peter Sorensen, 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/2e1477db8e59e… raw record view: /formation/cc/2e1477db8e59e7296a3df62a8d814bef8a880cd7c5330864993844206ac64d28 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 c50cf63b | ≈ 7-fold score 0.945 | 5 | 5 | 0.761 | 0.5775 |
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 c50cf63b— 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
- Morgans Hill 24 August 2008, Morgans Hill
- next
- West Overton 26 August 2008, West Overton
- previous in UK
- Morgans Hill 24 August 2008
- next in UK
- West Overton 26 August 2008
- same day
- Wedhampton (Wedhampton)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Alton Barnes 24 August 2008, 0 m away, 1 day(s) apart · Honeystreet 23 August 2008, 551 m away, 2 day(s) apart · Etchilhampton 31 August 2008, 6.1 km away, 6 day(s) apart · Wedhampton 25 August 2008, 6.3 km away, 0 day(s) apart · West Overton 26 August 2008, 6.5 km away, 1 day(s) apart · Cherhill 22 August 2008, 10.6 km away, 3 day(s) apart · Liddington Castle 23 August 2008, 21.8 km away, 2 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1970
Alton Barnes10 September 1988Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1988-09-10
Alton Barnes12 July 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-07-12
Alton BarnesAugust 1990Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1990-08 Alton Barnes18 April 1991
Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-04-18
Alton Barnes2 July 1991Alton Barnes
0 m away, 1991-07-02
- 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
- 2026-09-11T19:20:39Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- none
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK20080825_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 0aa09f74caaf · images 5260fd868d30 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo f4c6014b2308