Avebury Down
UK20080928_A28 September 2008·Avebury Down, Wiltshire·maize
Reported 28 September 2008 in maize at Avebury Down, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 28 September 2008 (day precision)
- place
- Avebury Down
Wiltshire
England - crop
- maize
- size
- 689 ft (210.0 m) across
as written: 210 m | 689 ft - 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
- 51.428367, -1.855137
- 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 Avebury Down | September 28 2008 | 575×415 46.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image ca9be2bce978 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/09/28/UK20080928_A.html |
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 46.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image ca9be2bce978 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2008/200809.html |
Photographs (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | aerial | Philipe Ullens | image credit | crop circle at Avebury Down | September 28 2008 | 575×415 95.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image 946f92602696 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2008/09/28/UK20080928_A.html |
Date
28 September 2008, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 28 September 2008
- weekday
- Sunday, day 272 of the year, ISO week 39, autumn
- sun and moon
- 5.8 days after the September equinox; moon new (1% lit), 13.1 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
- 51.428367, -1.855137 — 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 | 51.428367, -1.855137 place / os_open_names |
Crop and size
- crop
- maize (cc: maize)
- diameter
- 689 ft (210.0 m)
- size as written
- 210 m | 689 ft
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 | UK20080928_A |
| name | Avebury Down |
| location | |
| county | Wiltshire |
| country | England |
| date reported | 2008-09-28 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | maize |
| size | 210 m | 689 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 689 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | Philipe Ullens, cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2008/200809.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | none |
| record | cc/9d30ea4ca4a59… raw record view: /formation/cc/9d30ea4ca4a59999bf176ec9a064e8fe40ab6e7a7d1f4b5ee48ae81e135009bf 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 ca9be2bc | ≈ none found | 1 | 1 | 0.998 | 0.1161 |
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 ca9be2bc— 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
- Broad Hinton 24 September 2008, Broad Hinton
- next
- Ipuacu 8 November 2008, Ipuacu
- previous in UK
- Broad Hinton 24 September 2008
- next in UK
- Avebury 14 April 2009
- same day
- no other formation is dated this day
- within 7 days and 25 km
- Yatesbury 21 September 2008, 4.0 km away, 7 day(s) apart · Broad Hinton 24 September 2008, 6.9 km away, 4 day(s) apart
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Avebury
0 m away, 1988-06-17 Avebury1 July 1990
Avebury
0 m away, 1990-07-01
AveburyJuly 1991Avebury
0 m away, 1991-07
Avebury1 August 1991Avebury
0 m away, 1991-08-01 Avebury2 August 1991
Avebury
0 m away, 1991-08-02 Avebury3 August 1991
Avebury
0 m away, 1991-08-03
- 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/UK20080928_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity b8eeb977f915 · images c410d5eef3bb · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo f8b448678e19