Maiden Castle

Images

66 image(s) on this formation's own source records, and 1 more on 1 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 (6)

diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default diagram r71.deviantart.com image-group credit diagram Bertold Zugelder image-group credit diagram Nyako Nakar image-group credit diagram Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default

Photographs (37)

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Other images (23)

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Attached photographs (1)

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.

Maiden Castle, Dorset | 26th July 2015

tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 26 July 2015 · matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 · pair 25788ff648f7 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z

• attachment: tt archive_image maiden-castle-dorset-26th-july-2015
• date 2015-07-26 vs 2015-07-26 (delta +0 d)
• name tokens shared: maiden, castle
• county Dorset == Dorset
• country UK (uk_county) == UK (cc_id)
• the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (UK20150726_A)

aerial Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default

site	kind	credit	basis	caption	size	file	source page
tt	aerial	Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples	site default	Maiden Castle, Dorset | 26th July 2015	800×569 669.6 KiB image/jpeg	image 448c0822a6d3	https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2015-crop-circles

Date

26 July 2015, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by

cc: 26 July 2015 ccc: 26 July 2015 tt: 26 July 2015

weekday

Sunday, day 207 of the year, ISO week 30, summer

sun and moon

34.8 days after the June solstice; moon waxing gibbous (72% lit), 4.9 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

54.769400, -1.562503 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record

on a map

OpenStreetMap

Crop and size

crop

wheat (cc: wheat, ccc: —, tt: wheat)

diameter

300 ft (91.4 m)

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.

Texts

8 document(s), each attached to the record whose page hosts it. These are other people's words: quoted here in short attributed extract, with a link to the page that published each one in full.

Claims about this formation

37 claim(s) extracted by lexicon from the texts above, written by BB, Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew), Temporary Temples. A claim row is a record of what an author wrote, with the sentence verbatim. It is not evidence about the formation, and nothing here is tested on this page.

Up to 3 quote(s) per type, verbatim from the document:

• “A crop picture at Maiden Castle on July 26, 2015 first compared the forward-and-backward motions of planets in Earth’s night sky to “dialling numbers on a telephone dial”, then used that metaphor to give us an important message in forward-and-backward Morse code.” astronomical · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “A crop picture at Maiden Castle on July 26, 2015 first showed a schematic image of the bright planets, Sun and Moon just before the last Venus-Sun conjunction on January 11, 2014. Venus was moving then clockwise in retrograde, relative to the zodiac of distant stars, which were moving anti-clockwise for the image shown below:” astronomical · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “As we approach another Venus-Sun conjunction on August 15, 2015, planet Venus once again began a forward or retrograde motion, relative to the backward motion of distant stars, on July 26, 2015 when this crop picture appeared.” astronomical · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “A crop picture at Maiden Castle on July 26, 2015 first compared the forward-and-backward motions of planets in Earth’s night sky to “dialling numbers on a telephone dial”, then used that metaphor to give us an important message in forward-and-backward Morse code.” code · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “Now the extra-terrestrials crop artists, who seem to be great lovers of astronomy, used this metaphor to give us a new and important message in :”forward and backward” Morse code.” code · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “When we “dial” the first number of their message as “3” on a “telephone dial”, we can read two characters in Morse code as “9” forward, then “1” in reverse:” code · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “A crop picture at Maiden Castle on July 26, 2015 first compared the forward-and-backward motions of planets in Earth’s night sky to “dialling numbers on a telephone dial”, then used that metaphor to give us an important message in forward-and-backward Morse code.” comparison · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “A crop picture at Maiden Castle on July 26, 2015 first showed a schematic image of the bright planets, Sun and Moon just before the last Venus-Sun conjunction on January 11, 2014. Venus was moving then clockwise in retrograde, relative to the zodiac of distant stars, which were moving anti-clockwise for the image shown below:” comparison · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “(general quarters), MEET E.T.”” authorship_et · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “Now the extra-terrestrials crop artists, who seem to be great lovers of astronomy, used this metaphor to give us a new and important message in :”forward and backward” Morse code.” authorship_et · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “Ostensibly this might mean “M-E-E-T E.T.”” authorship_et · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “A crop picture at Maiden Castle on July 26, 2015 first compared the forward-and-backward motions of planets in Earth’s night sky to “dialling numbers on a telephone dial”, then used that metaphor to give us an important message in forward-and-backward Morse code.” landscape · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “Now the extra-terrestrials crop artists, who seem to be great lovers of astronomy, used this metaphor to give us a new and important message in :”forward and backward” Morse code.” landscape · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page
• “Their third backward symbol, as a dot for “E”, was drawn slightly off the line of other characters, to suggest that it should be read as a separate word.” landscape · Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) · source page

Texts about other formations that refer to this one:

• “Maiden Castle on July 26, 2015” ← Großziethen· Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew)
• “Maiden Castle on July 26, 2015” ← Merstham· Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew)

Geometry

6 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.

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 facaf7cb · ccc 0067a811 · ccc facaf7cb · ccc 6fa6d771 · tt 0f6d778c— 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

Barbury Castle 25 July 2015, Barbury Castle

next

Chopinzinho 27 July 2015, Chopinzinho

previous in UK

Barbury Castle 25 July 2015

next in UK

Merstham 29 July 2015

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.

Maiden Castle11 June 1993
Maiden Castle
0 m away, 1993-06-11 Maiden Castle11 June 1993
Maiden Castle
0 m away, 1993-06-11 Maiden Castle6 June 1994
Maiden Castle
0 m away, 1994-06-06 Maiden Castle6 June 1994
Maiden Castle
0 m away, 1994-06-06 Houghton-le-Spring7 August 2008
Houghton-le-Spring
10.1 km away, 2008-08-07 Shildon16 August 1999
Shildon
15.9 km away, 1999-08-16

same county and year

Blandford Forum 30 May 2015

Provenance

entity built at

2026-09-15T03:03:25Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)

index run ids

20260911T192039Z-index-build, 20260915T030325Z-index-build

reviews applied

none

open queue pairs

none

entity record

index/formations/UK20150726_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl

input digests

entity 7dd474ed301f · images 74f26083ffbc · attachments e57807f5d405 · texts b0372ea5cd12 · geo 770ece2a83b5