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Alton Priors

UK20090808_A

8 August 2009·Alton Priors, Wiltshire·wheat

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

  • West Overton (West Overton, nr Lockeridge)(lp, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 91824e9c)
    date 2009-08-08 vs 2009-08-08 (delta +0 d); county Wiltshire == Wiltshire; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Russel Stannard (image credit) · aerial published by cropcirclecenter.com — crop circle at Alton Priors | August 08 2009. One of 3 images on this record.

Reported 8 August 2009 in wheat at Alton Priors, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
8 August 2009 (day precision)
place
Alton Priors
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
51.359970, -1.842584
how it was got
os open names
place, to within 2,000 m, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
Adam's GraveAveburyCasterley CampMarden Henge5 km

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)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
cc diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default crop circle at Alton Priors | August 08 2009 575×415
31.6 KiB image/jpeg
image bf7fe72eb2a2 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2009/08/08/UK20090808_A.html
cc diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
31.6 KiB image/jpeg
image bf7fe72eb2a2 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2009/200908.html

Photographs (1)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
cc aerial Russel Stannard image credit crop circle at Alton Priors | August 08 2009 575×415
63.0 KiB image/jpeg
image 6e34c641d16a https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2009/08/08/UK20090808_A.html

Date

8 August 2009, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 8 August 2009
weekday
Saturday, day 220 of the year, ISO week 32, summer
sun and moon
45.4 days before the September equinox; moon waning gibbous (94% lit), 2.5 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
51.359970, -1.842584 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWiltshireEngland 51.359970, -1.842584 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 UK20090808_A
name Alton Priors
location
county Wiltshire
country England
date reported 2009-08-08
date precision day
crop wheat
size
diameter (ft)
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits Russel Stannard, cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2009/200908.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings none
record cc/2b2629baaf2a7…
raw record view: /formation/cc/2b2629baaf2a7567fb8f2f18dfbdde3965d1715bc8bcdedbd959a3e7ff48c8e7 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, of which 1 is a shared cropcirclecenter placeholder rather than a drawing of this formation. 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.

diagramrotational symmetryelementsringsmirrorfill
cc bf7fe72e (placeholder: solid_disc) ≈ continuous (concentric circles) 1 1 0.983 0.9178

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 bf7fe72e— 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
Wilhelminapolder 7 August 2009, Wilhelminapolder
next
BIshop Sutton 9 August 2009, BIshop Sutton
previous in UK
Yatesbury 6 August 2009
next in UK
BIshop Sutton 9 August 2009
same day
Hoeven (Hoeven) · Alton Priors (Alton Priors) · West Overton (West Overton)
within 7 days and 25 km
Alton Priors 2 August 2009, 0 m away, 6 day(s) apart · Alton Priors 8 August 2009, 0 m away, 0 day(s) apart · Woodborough Hill 10 August 2009, 2.0 km away, 2 day(s) apart · West Overton 8 August 2009, 6.1 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Silbury Hill 3 August 2009, 6.3 km away, 5 day(s) apart · Yatesbury 6 August 2009, 10.4 km away, 2 day(s) apart · Windmill Hill 6 August 2009, 21.4 km away, 2 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

same county and year
Standdaarbuiten 10 July 2009 · Avebury 14 April 2009 · West Kennett 19 April 2009 · West Kennett 21 April 2009 · Avebury 23 April 2009 · Morgans Hill 24 April 2009 · Liddington Castle 25 April 2009 · Roundway Hill 29 April 2009 · East Kennett 3 May 2009 · Clatford 4 May 2009 · All Cannings 6 May 2009 · Swindon 9 May 2009 · Roundway Devizes 10 May 2009 · Barbury Castle 24 May 2009 · Bishops Cannings 24 May 2009 · Windmill Hill 24 May 2009 · Beckhampton 1 June 2009 · Milk Hill 2 June 2009 · Milk Hill 2 June 2009 · Yatesbury 3 June 2009 and 67 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
91824e9c207ce384fd6c13eb84fdef1b86f9549399a7e1d94903e67215686116
entity record
index/formations/UK20090808_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 7cc79a778ba1 · images eed48ca43b48 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 0fe3c0bb5d00