CROP CIRCLES OF 1983 Cheesefoot Head, Nr Winchester, Hampshire. Reported 19th June

CROP CIRCLES OF 1983

Chicklade, nr Salisbury, Wiltshire.

This is a real treat I've found. It is a Crop Circle from 1983. The little boy in the front is my five year old brother Mike, my father Roger took the photo in Chicklade where we all lived at the time. I haven't seen this one anywhere else.

The Crop Circle is at Chicklade Bottom
Here on Streetmap:
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Here on Satellite (or aircraft whatever took it):
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Chicklade as taken from Wiltshire Place Names – Martyn Whittock – Countryside Books – very good reference point for understanding some of the messages from the circles.

Chicklade

This name is one of a small number in Wiltshire where a Welsh and a Saxon word are combined to construct one place-name. This may indicate that the place had a pre-Saxon name to which has been added a Saxon one, or that a pre-Saxon word entered the vocabulary of the early Anglo-Saxon settlers. In this case the two words are the British ceto, Welsh coed (wood) and the Saxon hlid (gate). It first appeared in 912 in the form Cytlid, by 1232 it had developed into Chicled and in 1279 appeared in the very recognisable version Chikkelade.

What is now called Great Ridge was in 1348 originally named Chicladrygh (Chicklade Ridge).

Bocklerley Hill may derive from the Saxon bocleah (beech wood). In the case leah may have been used with its older meaning of 'wood', rather than in the sense 'clearing'. This last meaning is one that developed in the later Anglo-Saxon period.

Fonthill Bishop

The name Fonthill, first recorded as Funtgeall, in 901, is mixed Saxon and Welsh. It combines Saxon funta (water-channel) and Welsh ial (fertile uplands). For another example of ial see Deverill. The Saxon word funta may have been borrowed from the Latin word fontana.

Fonthill Bishop shares its name with Fonthill Gifford and Fonthill Brook. It is close to Teffont Magna, Teffont Evias and near Fovant. All are derived from 'funta' and this concentration of funta place-names, near two Roman roads, suggests that there may have been a survival of Roman water management here and that a Latin term may have passed directly to Saxon settlers. 'Bishop' shows land was owned by the church.

My words:

In Chicklade village there is a little old church, and there was once a priory there. The church has a circle (now not complete) of Yew trees signifying a Bronze age worship site. Also the A303 is very straight in the main and goes past Yarnbury on to Stonehenge, this may have Ley line possibilities. There is a Roman road in the Great Ridge Wood, which then joins the A303 or it joins the Roman road, as it came first, they used to eat the snails from here, and the Wessex Ridgeway runs through Chicklade. So this is an ancient settlement, and a major thoroughfare, the Little Chef and the Old Rectory the last two eateries left, previously there was more than pub here as coaches and their horses used to stop off here prior to the age of the car.

Clare Kingston

This was the first formation investigated by Colin Andrews. When he came across this formation at Cheesefoot Head, he had never heard of the three men who would become friends and spend so much time in years to come, they were Pat Delgado, Busty Taylor and Dr. Terence Meaden.

This quintuplet set was first found at 6.30 AM on the 19th of June, 1983 in the famous amphitheatre of Cheesefoot Head, Near Winchester, Hampshire. The wheat had five very well defined circles flattened into it. The central circle was 18.5 metres diameter and was swirled clockwise, with each satellite approx. 5 metres, also swirled clockwise. Farmer Maurace Botting was angry and un-cooperative with researchers from the beginning. He rarely allowed entry and when he succumbed he accompanied them. The A272 became clogged up for hours each evening with cars pulling off the road as families would park up and spend the evenings stood staring down into the field and chatting about every mystery the universe held. Most who witnessed these times, enjoyed them. Many new friends were made and new theories hatched. Doug and Dave claim to have been among the crowds of onlookers.

This was one case where a single glance from a car, would change the life of Colin Andrews for ever. Little did he know on that day, his life would change in every conceivable way as a direct result of what he was looking at. As a naturally quiet person, he would become very public as an author, television personality, he would resign his job and move from his country as he travelled from one country to another lecturing around the world on the subject. Circles Phenomenon Research would be shortly formed with a small team who would place a new term into vocabulary around the whole world - The term 'Crop Circles" had arrived.

Report by Colin Andrews.