It has been a long time since we had our last crop circle in the UK. Some thought the circle makers had deserted us. But two weeks after the last event at Atherington in Sussex, the circle makers returned with a lovely twelve-fold formation in wheat close to Hannington in Wiltshire.

Hannington lies north of Swindon in the north of Wiltshire. We have had several circles around this location in years past most notably in 2011 and 2012 where we had some early circles in oilseed rape crop there, see our archives for pictures

The circle measures between 180-200ft and is in a field of golden mature wheat. The pattern comprises several concentric rings and a twelve-fold pattern over four of them, made from a circular symmetry of circles! Four half-moons sit around the perimeter  at regular intervals – similar to the circle at Hackpen Hill this year which had six half-moons on its perimeter.

Twelve is the number of man according to geometer John Michell, it is the base of all imperial measure (space), and our measure of time – 12 hours of the day, 12 hours of night, 12 months in a year, 12 constellations of the Zodiac etc. This link made a vital connection between space and time, something that is now disjointed with our metric system of measure (base 10) sitting alongside our still imperial measure of time.