This circle was reported late in the day on Saturday the 21st of July. It is located by the road that runs from Honey Street in Alton Barnes to Horton, at a bend in the road close to Clifford’s Hill, the Village of Allington and the site of the Longbarrow at All Cannings – so take your pick! You can see its precise location on the google maps link on this page. The formation measured approximately 180-200ft in diameter and was a 12-pointed spinner design in wheat.

Visiting –  Please note: The farmer has now cut out a substantial proportion of the interior of this circle and the field is closed to visitors. Please do not go in the field  – thanks.

Grateful Thanks: Our grateful thanks go to the photographer Nils Kenneth Fordal who very kindly offered us some of his lovely pictures for our website – when he knew we had been unable to photograph this circle before the farmer had defaced it. Thanks Nils for your kindness. The circle was reported on the evening of the 21st, by lunch time of the 22nd it had been cut.

Like the circle at Kingweston in Somerset this was a 12-fold design; a kind of windmill-like central flower is contained by a standing and flattened circle. It has a real grace to it which is hard to describe. It reminded me of the kind of hand-held windmill I had as a child, and in that reverie it struck me that the wind, breath and time are somehow all linked.

THE CROP CIRCLE YEAR BOOK 2017, will be the nineteenth in a series of year books by Steve Alexander (photographer) and Karen Alexander (writer) portraying the beautiful and mysterious crop circle phenomenon within the UK. This popular series of full colour, fine-art-reproduction books are privately published in limited numbers and come to you directly from the authors; they have become an invaluable and magical window into the fields of southern England, and are the only annually published books on the subject.

Paperback: 44 pages (excluding covers)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 30 x 21 cms approx. (A4)
ISBN 978-0-9560992-7-9