Ditcheat, Somerset 

(Near Ditcheat & Pennard Hill)

Introduction: This crop circle was first reported on the 31st of May 2026 in a field of young wheat. It measures approximately 120ft in diameter. This is the first crop circle of 2026 to appear in wheat. 

Location details: Google Maps Link OS Grid Ref: ST 61670 37280. What-three-words: diverged.rush.assembles 

Strophalos, or Hecate’s Wheel.

Description: This crop circle is a three-fold design. It’s geometry and design are quite uneven. But it can be approximated with compass and straight-edge (see Geometry Gallery below). It bears a passing resemblance to a design called the Strophalos, or Hecate’s Wheel. Originally an ancient Greek symbol, in moderns times it is associated with Wicca practices. This original design is interesting, Hecate was a dark Goddess of the night, connected to the Moon. This threefold pattern symbolises her as mother, maiden and crone. It is also a labyrinth, made from an unbroken line, denoting a spiritual journey. While the Ditcheat crop circle is not this exact symbol and is much less complex, the similarity is interesting. 

Flight: We have not flown this crop circle, but you can see drone images by Billy Breen and Tomasz Kaczmarek. We are enormously grateful to Billy and Tomasz for sharing their images with us. 

We are still fund-raising to fly this season, if you’d like to make a donation to our flight fund, you can do that here.

Visiting: Please do not enter the field without seeking permission from the farmer. Please read our Visiting the Crop Circles section for a downloadable PDF about visiting the crop circles. 

Crop Circle Interior: We are fortunate to have some ground images from inside the circle by researcher Dan Vidler in the image gallery below. Thanks to Dan for sharing this images with us. 

Location History: This area of Somerset has seen a number of circles in the past couple of years.  Looking at the map, there do not appear any ancient sites of particular significance or interest in proximity to this formation. 

General Information:

Visiting the Circles? If you are thinking of visiting any crop circles this summer, please read our Visiting the Crop Circles section. It’s full of useful information and etiquette for visiting the countryside and the crop circles. Please remember that you should not enter any field without the express permission of the farmer.

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Please Help to keep us Flying in 2026: We hope to take to the skies again in 2026 to record the circles that appear this summer. If you have enjoyed looking at our pictures and information please consider making a small donation to keep us flying. There are so few of us left regularly recording the circles it’s really important that we continue. And while some now use drones to record the circles, it is important that there are still images taken from aircraft where the best quality camera equipment can be used and images that include the broad vista of the landscape can be taken. This kind of photography is expensive and it gets harder with each passing year to raise the funds we need to continue our work, but if everyone who regularly looked at this website made a small donation we would meet the funds we need. You can make a donation here.

NOTE: Some of the images below are beautiful landscape scenes. Click on each image to enlarge them and see the whole picture. 

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We can supply high resolution images of many of our photographs and the sky is the limit as to what they can be used for! Choose from our extensive library or contact us to commission aerial photography for your project.

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Geometry Gallery