Waden Hill, Wilts.

(Close to Avebury stone circle).

Introduction: This crop circle was first reported on the 29th April 2026 in a field of Oilseed rape (canola). It measures (very) approximately 100ft in length.

Location details: Google Maps Link OS Grid Ref: SU 10495 68980. What-three-words: lease.tabs.amuses

Description: The design of this crop circle harkens back to the ‘dumbbell’ formations of the very early 1990s. Interestingly, this crop circle sits directly on a tractor-line, so much so, that it becomes part of the design of the circle. This is unusual, but not unique. Researcher Peter van den Burg, has shown that the design is underpinned by the Vesica Pisces – see the Geometry Gallery below for his analysis.

Flight: We won’t be flying this circle, it’s just too small to cover with an aircraft. However you can see drone shots by Ben Sasson & Simon Young in the picture gallery below. We’d like to thank them for sharing their images with us.

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.

Location History: Waden Hill lies between Silbury Hill and Avebury stone circle, in the heart of Wiltshire’s ancient sacred landscape. There have been crop circles at Waden Hill many times over the last 30 years.

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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Geometry Gallery

Geometric analysis and commentary by Peter van den Burg

Waden Hill, April 29, 2026.

The second crop circle this year is an elegant, somewhat modest design. It is reminiscent of early ’90’s dumbell formations which still come around every now and then.

Drawing it on paper requires a Vesica Pisces with a central circle. Derive a Golden mean from one of the circles, and place that tangent with the central circle. Copy the central circle in there as well, and draw a third circle so that it lies tangent with the lateral end of the Vesica Pisces. This circle is in turn a Golden mean from the previous Golden mean circle. This is also how it relates to the first formation at Ilcester from april 4th in that it incorporates pentagonal ratios without having the need to actually draw complete pentagons, -grams. This is not unprecedented and to some extend always the case with hidden ratios, but in this case it doesn’t ask for attention. It is something both designs share.

It is peculiar placed in the field with the lower tramline at a slight angle compared to the tramline on which the formation is placed. Since the formation has its spine built from the tramline this detail kind of begs attention. If we play with this a bit, we can find some possible correlations. If intentional, this is actually quite cool. The length of the spine then would be determined by the angle at wich the tramlines stand at each other.

I love the use of negative space in this design. It appears as a connected whole, but none of the elements touch each other. There have been other dumbell formations that were placed on a tramline. Both in recent years and in the early ’90’s. But to use its spine as standing crop is uncommon. There was one at East Kennet in 2017 for example, which is not too far from Waden Hill.

Peter van den Burg

A huge thanks to Peter for allowing us to feature his work on this page.
You can read read more of Peter's excellent work on his Facebook Page Geometry of the Crop Circles.

Date

29.04.2026

Crop

Oilseed Rape (Canola)

Visiting

Google Maps Link. O.S. Grid Ref: SU 10495 68980. What-three-words: lease.tabs.amuses
You will need permission to visit this field from the farmer.