Sutton Veny, Wilts
The ‘Gallops’ below Whiten Hill.
Detail & Location: This circle was first reported on the 15th May 2025 in a field of young malting barley. It measures approximately 180ft in diameter.
Google Maps Link. OS Grid Ref: ST 89383 40984. What-three-words: confetti.aims.justified
Flight: By the time we took to the air the crop circle had been in the fields for 5 days or so. As the circle was in quite immature barley, the crops began to recover via phototropism almost from day one. So after 5 days, the circle was beginning to lose its crispness as you can see in the images. However, this is still a beauty of a crop circle.
Visiting: The farmers are generously allowing access to this circle, for which we thank them heartily. They are asking for you to make a donation of £10.00 to their Go-Fund-Me campaign. Please be generous in return, it’s important that we are allies to the farming community.
Even if you don’t visit the crop circle, you can still donate to the Go-Fund-Me campaign to show your appreciation for their cooperation with the crop circle community.
Details for visiting can be found here: https://www.cropcircleaccess.com/latestcropcircles
(including details of where to park you car etc.)
Farmer’s Go-Fund-Me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gallops-crop-circle
Location & History: This is as far as I am aware a new location for the crop circle phenomenon. It a beautiful location too. This field sits beneath Whiten Hill, in a small amphitheatre. There is a fenced gallops around the field, for the training of horses, which also makes it rather unique and emphasises the oval shape of the field. Because the behaviour of the phenomenon is something we should be paying attention to, this crop circle seems contained, or fenced-off in someway – perhaps for symbolic emphasis? The crop circle itself also sits between two groups of three trees in the field, which are circled by tractorlines and look almost crop-circle-like themselves.The placement of this circle seems very much to create a collection of three features, rather than just standing alone.
There are a number of further interesting landscape features in the area, including a small semi-circular settlement on the top of nearby Cow Down, and a number of round barrows. All this points to the fact that this is part of the landscape that was important to our ancient ancestors and is in line with the link that the crop circles usually have with our ancient ancestors and their landscapes.
Read more about the Sutton Veny roundbarrows here: https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/4025/sutton-veny-barrows
About this crop circle: This crop circle is a ringed circle with an elaborate standing Celtic knot at its centre.
Veteran ground researcher Dan Vidler paid a visit to this circle recently and has produced a field report. You can read that report below.
Dan Vidler Field Report: https://www.ukcropcircles.co.uk/?page=circle-report&id=19683027
Please see the Geometry Gallery below for more details.
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The central design has familiarity with Celtic knots with its typical over- and under weaving pattern. Not unprecedented in crop circles, but rather uncommon on the whole. Especially when drawn negatively (standing crop). This design is a lovely stylised version of that. But it deviates in one part. The center is inverted. When the ribbon crosses over the square towards the center, you would expect the ribbon to go under in the next crossing. But it doesn’t. It crosses over again. I have no idea why the pattern is inverted, but it gives me the impression of a slightly less tight knot. Perhaps not even a knot in the literal sense. More open. It’s rather subtle. This way one can imagine folding out the cross to a circle. (Would the square then become a cross?) If the pattern was true to the Celtic knot theme, this would not be possible. If the cross was folded out to a circle, its mean radius would be equal to the central circle by the way.
The trees with the tramline circling around them appear as two faces when seen from above. The formation is placed in between them. Giving an impression of communication. A radius drawn from the centre of the crop circle to the eyes of either one of the faces will have equal distance to the mouth of the opposite face. It appears to me that the tramline spacing in the current field is equal to what we see on Google earth. If we try a squared circle from these two circles we find the square aligns with the tramlines. The Moon circle ( a circle defining the distance between the top of the square and the radius of the squared circle) is equal to the central circle.
May 15 was two days after the full moon. The two faces may represent the face in the moon, and the four fold division of the moon cycle. But I like the communication theme.
It is not a complex formation to draw. The underlying geometry is pretty straight forward. The drawing with the template should give all the information you need to reproduce.
While looking for information on Celtic knots I came across an object called the Battersea shield. Have a look. It’s not a direct reference, but the position of the formation with the two circles at either end, the four fold division and the swastika in the center are somewhat similar.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1857-0715-1
The red and blue rectangles are both √2 dynamic rectangles, representing respectively the combined area of flattened crop (red) and standing crop (blue). So do the squares. Somewhat unsatisfying in regard to the ring, but nicely harmonic with the central part. Not sure if we can make the case of this being intentional though. The underlying geometry is octagonal all the way through, so harmonics with squares and √2 rectangles may occur. I’m convinced in many crop circles this is an intentional design feature. But I’m not so sure in this case.
Date
15.05.2025
Crop
Malting Barley
Visiting
Google Maps Link. OS Grid Ref: ST 89383 40984. What-three-words: confetti.aims.justified
The farmer is allowing access for a £10.00 donation to his Go-Fund-Me campaign. See main text for details.
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