Wayland's Smithy
UK20090529_A29 May 2009·Wayland's Smithy, Oxfordshire·barley
Reported 29 May 2009 in barley at Wayland's Smithy, Oxfordshire. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 29 May 2009 (day precision)
- place
- Wayland's Smithy
Oxfordshire
England - crop
- barley
- size
- 597 ft (182.0 m) across
as written: 182 m | 597 ft - recorded by
- cc lp
- images
- 5 on the record, 8 attached · 2 diagram, 1 aerial, 2 other
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
Waylands Smithy
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.758997, -1.295625
- how it was got
- county centroid
county, to within 32,986 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
5 image(s) on this formation's own source records, and 8 more on 8 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | crop circle at Wayland's Smithy | May 29 2009 | 575×415 77.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image caf83c1ab6ad | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2009/05/29/UK20090529_A.html |
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 77.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image caf83c1ab6ad | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2009/200905.html |
Photographs (3)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | aerial | John Montgomery | image credit | crop circle at Wayland's Smithy | May 29 2009 | 575×415 80.1 KiB image/jpeg |
image 0c7c79e946cd | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2009/05/29/UK20090529_A.html |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | A Jellyfish design Approx: 600 feet long | 574×800 85.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 3698ed8220f6 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2009/uk2009as.shtml |
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | A Jellyfish design Approx: 600 feet long | 553×800 98.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image 4de37971f6dd | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2009/uk2009as.shtml |
Attached photographs (8)
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.
Date
29 May 2009, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 29 May 2009 lp: 29 May 2009
- weekday
- Friday, day 149 of the year, ISO week 22, spring
- sun and moon
- 22.7 days before the June solstice; moon waxing crescent (32% lit), 9.3 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
- 51.758997, -1.295625 — county, ±32,986 m, by county_centroid, from the cc record
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | Oxfordshire | England | 51.758997, -1.295625 county / county_centroid | |||
| lp | Waylands Smithy | Oxfordshire | United Kingdom | none |
Crop and size
- crop
- barley (cc: barley, lp: —)
- diameter
- 597 ft (182.0 m)
- size as written
- 182 m | 597 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 | lp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk |
|---|---|---|
| id / slug differs | UK20090529_A | waylands-smithy-2009 |
| name differs | Wayland's Smithy | Waylands Smithy |
| location | Waylands Smithy | |
| county | Oxfordshire | Oxfordshire |
| country differs | England | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 2009-05-29 | 2009-05-29 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop | barley | |
| size | 182 m | 597 ft | |
| diameter (ft) | 597 | |
| grid reference | ||
| what3words | ||
| map link | ||
| credits differs | John Montgomery, cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | Lucy Pringle |
| source page differs | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2009/200905.html | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/2009/uk2009as.shtml |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2009-05-29 vs 2009-05-29 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: waylands, smithy; county Oxfordshire == Oxfordshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-15 date 2009-05-29 vs 2009-05-29 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: waylands, smithy; county Oxfordshire == Oxfordshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field) |
| warnings | none | none |
| record | cc/b8e1ceb3da44b… raw record view: /formation/cc/b8e1ceb3da44bed07a257ff018eab9fd1e17f54f6a9befb6f4c1243d75b1d589 in the preview app |
lp/4817f62847ccf… raw record view: /formation/lp/4817f62847ccfd2923d615675386f9b991a7936ded1a5da36977b46b6d9f8791 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 caf83c1a | ≈ none found | 1 | 3 | 0.87 | 0.0768 |
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 caf83c1a— 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
- Windmill Hill 25 May 2009, Windmill Hill
- next
- Ehlen 30 May 2009, Ehlen
- previous in UK
- Windmill Hill 25 May 2009
- next in UK
- Beckhampton 1 June 2009
- same day
- no other formation is dated this day
- 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.
this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better, so nothing can be called near it
- same county and year
- Wayland's Smithy 12 June 2009 · Rollright Stones 3 August 2009 · Wayland's Smithy 12 August 2009 · Wayland's Smithy 29 August 2009
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
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK20090529_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 41dd97e6ef20 · images c3e918d83944 · attachments 588a25954c13 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 515ac580d00f