Quirky Quintuplet: Back to Square One?

Eaton Water Copse, nr Hannington, Wilts May 12th 2012Oilseed Rape (canola) Click on any of the images to enlarge them. The third formation of the year was reported on May the 12th and was located at the rather elaborately named ‘Eaton Water Copse’ (near to Hannington)...

Transcendental Triangulation: Two Becomes Three

Yarnbury Castle, April 28th 2012 – Oilseed Rape (canola) Click on any of the images to enlarge them. The second formation of the 2012 crop circle season arrived on the 28th of April. Located by Yarnbury Castle hill-fort, it was just a stone’s throw away from...

“My God, it’s full of stars”

Jubilee Plantation 2011 & the last known words of Dr. Dave Bowman The Jubilee Plantation crop circle (August 10th 2011) was the last formation of the 2011 season, and was perhaps the most ambitious and complex of the year. It carries a small connection with the...

The First Formation of the 2012 Season…

The End of One Great Cycle & the Beginning of Another The first formation of the 2012 Crop Circle season (in the UK) has arrived. It is located near Lurkley Hill in East Kennet. One popular reporting site has the location given as Hill Barn, East Kennet. It is a...

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This…

The Roundway formation, 23rd July 2011 Every now and again, there comes a circle that is really unique, original and inventive; the Roundway formation of 2011 was one such formation. Seemingly a long, cascading, daisy-chain of flowers, stems and petals, there was...

Hidden Depths

The Temple Balsall formation, Warwickshire – July 21st (approx.) 2011 I have thought very long and hard about this blog and have wrestled with it over a prolonged period of time. There is a tale to be told about the reporting of this formation, but it is mired in the...

A City of Pyramids (part 2)

Part Two – Spiders Webs: The East Kennet formation 22nd July 2011 After completing the drawing of the East Kennet formation, as pleased as I was with the result, it seemed something was missing. It was that big blackness in the middle of the picture that bothered me....

A City of Pyramids

Part One – Egg Heads: The East Kennet formation 22nd July 2011 The East Kennet formation of 2011 was one of the wonders of the season. A circular design, its perimeter contained 10 thin pyramids and ten fat pyramids. At it’s centre, was the now familiar egg-head shape...

A Beautiful Economy?!

The Unbreakable Bond of the Milk Hill formation “Nature is saturated with Deity”, so said Ralph Waldo Emerson and, although I’m sure he meant something different, this quote encapsulates the geometers view of nature too – that the divine may be seen (hidden in...