This really is a very pretty location for a crop circle. Langdean Bottom (as it name suggests) is nestled in the bottom of a natural valley close to the village of East Kennet in Wiltshire. The ancient ridgeway
pathway runs alongside this field and the landscape nearby is dotted with roundbarrows. Clearly visible from the air is nearby East Kennet long barrow. Unlike its sibling at West Kennet, this longbarrow remains un-excavated and it’s stones mostly covered by a large earthen mound and a copse of large trees stands on top.
This crop circle has held up very well, it appeared on the 26th of June, but
we did not photograph it until the 3rd of July due to a bout of particularly bad weather. However, it still looked crisp and the beautiful floor lay of the formation still looked impressive and intact.
The design itself is very reminiscent of crop circles in their early years. Circles connected by lines – so-called Pictograms. But it is also very similar in style to several circles that have
appeared this year in that it has a narrow standing band which emphasises the design – we’ve seen this at Cherhill 2017 and Milk Hill 2017. The semi-circles which underline the circles at each end are a rather nice feature – researcher and geometer Michael Glickman calls them ‘cradles’ – again rather nice.
