Devil's Den, Wiltshire
x-tt-dd8e36d139ee7 July 2015·Devil's Den, Wiltshire, Wiltshire·wheat
Reported 7 July 2015 in wheat at Devil's Den, Wiltshire, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 7 July 2015 (day precision)
- place
- Devil's Den, Wiltshire
Wiltshire
United Kingdom - crop
- wheat
- size
- 60 ft (18.3 m) across
- recorded by
- tt
- images
- 9 on the record, 1 attached · 1 diagram, 7 aerial, 1 other
- writing
- 2 document(s)
Also called
Devil's Den
Canonical name from the temporarytemples.co.uk name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.194168, 0.572533
- how it was got
- os open names
place, to within 2,000 m, from the tt 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
9 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 (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | diagram | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | It's still on the drawing board! | 800×642 260.5 KiB image/jpeg |
image 0f6d778c1def | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
Photographs (7)
aerial
Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default
aerial
Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default
aerial
Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default
aerial
Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default
aerial
Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default
aerial
Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default
aerial
Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples site default
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devils Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire | 9th July 2015 | Wheat OH | 800×534 427.1 KiB image/jpeg |
image 20e84546dd24 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devils Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire | 9th July 2015 | Wheat L4 | 632×800 435.7 KiB image/jpeg |
image 2faafb19aa50 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devils Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire | 9th July 2015 | Wheat L3 | 800×534 457.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image b5146e8381e8 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devils Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire | 9th July 2015 | Wheat L2 | 534×800 444.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image a3ee0dbecf67 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devils Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire | 9th July 2015 | Wheat L | 550×800 452.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image c510bda3f58d | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devils Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire | 9th July 2015 | Wheat LOW | 800×524 495.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image 6e33d9daeafa | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devils Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire | 9th July 2015 | Wheat LOW2 | 800×536 573.1 KiB image/jpeg |
image 9e84fc877e85 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
Other images (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | other | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devils Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire | 2015 | DD | 800×515 513.3 KiB image/jpeg |
image bc813c8b453b | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
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.
Devil’s Den, Wiltshire | 7th July 2015
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 7 July 2015 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 872dd8a76660 · decided 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z
- attachment: tt archive_image devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015
- date 2015-07-07 vs 2015-07-07 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: devils, den
- county Wiltshire == Wiltshire
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (uk_county)
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (x-tt-dd8e36d139ee)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Devil’s Den, Wiltshire | 7th July 2015 | 800×524 495.8 KiB image/jpeg |
image 6e33d9daeafa | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2015-crop-circles |
Date
7 July 2015, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- tt: 7 July 2015
- weekday
- Tuesday, day 188 of the year, ISO week 28, summer
- sun and moon
- 15.8 days after the June solstice; moon waning gibbous (65% lit), 5.4 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
- 51.194168, 0.572533 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the tt record
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | Devil's Den | Wiltshire | 51.194168, 0.572533 place / os_open_names |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (tt: wheat)
- diameter
- 60 ft (18.3 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.
| field | tt temporarytemples.co.uk |
|---|---|
| id / slug | devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
| name | Devil's Den, Wiltshire |
| location | Devil's Den |
| county | Wiltshire |
| country | |
| date reported | 2015-07-07 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | |
| diameter (ft) | 60 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples |
| source page | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/devils-den-wiltshire-7th-july-2015 |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | narrative had no 'General Information:' terminator; conflicting reported dates: ['2015-07-07', '2015-07-09'] |
| record | tt/dd8e36d139ee6… raw record view: /formation/tt/dd8e36d139ee69230c345542c8901336ad5b10dbc63f06f30b0c56d1dffb46c6 in the preview app |
Texts
2 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.
Devil’s Den, nr Fyfield, Wiltshire narrative · tt
author: Temporary Temples (site default) · date: 7 July 2015 (record) · language: en· 2,430 characters · source page
Sometimes, it is the sheer beauty of simplicity that the crop circles manage to convey, that gives one pause for thought. While we all may collectively gasp at the huge complex designs that appear, it is formations such as this simple ringed circle that reminds us of the raw beauty and power of the simple form.
It was the 17th century writer and philosopher Voltaire that said “God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere”. By this he expressed the idea that the circle was a supreme symbol of the Divine, that it mirrored the circle of the sky, or heavens, that it encompassed (surrounded and contained) all of creation, and that it was omniscient (its centre everywhere). It’s a beautiful and profound association and one that has permeated our culture since time immemorial. The Sun and Moon (objects of worship for millennia) are also connected to this thinking…
Quoted in extract — 897 characters of 2,430. The whole document is on the page that published it.
Geometry Gallery geometry note · tt
author: Temporary Temples (site default) · date: 7 July 2015 (record) · language: en· 557 characters · source page
The ringed circle is almost an archetypal crop circle form. It has appeared in different dimensional permutations almost since the inception of the phenomenon. Sometimes there is an esoteric geometric relationship between the ring and the centre circle. By this I mean that the relationship between the circle and ring can hold an invisible form. This will be one of the things I will look for when drawing it. As we reach the busy part of the season, formations are backing up on my drawing board! So I will update this page when I’ve completed my drawing.
Claims about this formation
4 claim(s) extracted by lexicon from the texts above, written by 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.
| claim type | reported as | claims | testable with this archive? | author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| landscape | landscape | 2 | partly | Temporary Temples |
| science | science | 1 | partly | Temporary Temples |
| other | other | 1 | not_testable | Temporary Temples |
Up to 3 quote(s) per type, verbatim from the document:
- “By this he expressed the idea that the circle was a supreme symbol of the Divine, that it mirrored the circle of the sky, or heavens, that it encompassed (surrounded and contained) all of creation, and that it was omniscient (its centre everywhere).” landscape · Temporary Temples · source page
- “This little ringed circle at Devil’s Den carries all these connotations within it, like a fingerprint of the Divine on the Landscape.” landscape · Temporary Temples · source page
- “Sometimes there is an esoteric geometric relationship between the ring and the centre circle.” science · Temporary Temples · source page
- “The Devil of Devil’s Den is not the Satan of the bible, but none other than the pagan deity of fertility and general merriment, Pan.” other · Temporary Temples · source page
Geometry
no diagram of this formation has been measured
1 diagram file(s) on this page. no diagram of this formation carries the shape measurements — they are made for cropcirclecenter.com's renderings only, which are one editor's drawings at one size — but its perceptual hash is measured, so the similar-shapes view below works.
Diagrams that look like these: 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
- Clearbury Ring 6 July 2015, Clearbury Ring
- next
- Devil's Den 9 July 2015, Devil's Den
- previous in UK
- Clearbury Ring 6 July 2015
- next in UK
- Devil's Den 9 July 2015
- same day
- Großziethen (Großziethen)
- 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.
Devil's Den20 July 2008Devil's Den
0 m away, 2008-07-20
Devil`s Den12 August 2012Devil`s Den
0 m away, 2012-08-12
Maidstone13 August 2000Maidstone
9.5 km away, 2000-08-13
Maidstone2 July 2001Maidstone
9.5 km away, 2001-07-02
Maidstone19 June 2005Maidstone
9.5 km away, 2005-06-19 Thurnham27 June 1993
Thurnham
10.9 km away, 1993-06-27
- same county and year
- Barbury Hill 9 April 2015 · Yatesbury 12 May 2015 · Marlborough 24 May 2015 · Sherston 9 June 2015 · Stoford 15 June 2015 · Stanton St. Bernard 16 June 2015 · Avebury 19 June 2015 · Westwoods 21 June 2015 · Uffcott 21 June 2015 · Yatesbury 22 June 2015 · Stonehenge 24 June 2015 · Yatesbury 29 June 2015 · Clearbury Ring 6 July 2015 · Devil's Den 9 July 2015 · Stonehenge 10 July 2015 · Alton Barnes 14 July 2015 · Chippenham 22 July 2015 · Cley Hill 24 July 2015 · Barbury Castle 25 July 2015 · Etchilhampton 3 August 2015 and 3 more
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- 20260915T030325Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/x-tt-dd8e36d139ee.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 080fdd19d9e0 · images 389b76cb07e6 · attachments e14c8d467322 · texts 47299ea5957d · geo 63e9ac26dca2