Updated Monday 4th June 2007
An aerial shots by Steve Alexander. Copyright 1996.
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Liddington Castle Julia Set. It bears a tear-drop signature, which as accompanied two earlier formations near Devizes (one of which is the longest in history). The Crop Circle Connector wishes to thank the farmer Mr Whately for allowing access to his field. The entrance fee was £2.00 per person. Click on thumbnail to enlarge John Whately at the entrance to the field with the formations. Please John Email us sometime. Image by Stuart Dike. Copyright 1996. Field Report by Stuart Dike.Two formations graced this wonderful location on the outskirts of the industrial town of Swindon. Located on the slopes of Badbury Castle. is a fine example of at yet unknown Glyph design set inside what appeared to be a circle, but was sectioned as part of the design. Positioned further down the field, and on the same level of ground was what had to be described as a miniature fractal, incorporating the same principle of design as it's larger predecessors. Located further along the same field as the Glyph, was a miniature 'Fractal' design incorporating 38 circles. A tear Drop design was placed within the 'Fractal'. Each circle had a wonderful fan centre, with each individual stalk splayed out from the central point. Some of the centres were raised from the floor pattern, simply by the amount of crop tightly bound around the centre. At the top of the formation, there were five circles each on flowing into the next, very fluid in appearance. In fact every circle on this small formation was flowing into each other, with 21 anticlockwise, and 16 clockwise circles. Some actually ran in unison with each other, they weren't all counter rotational. Definitely the same agency made these two formations, but each one couldn't have been more different in their design. What are the CircleMakers trying to tell us here? So what's NEXT! Ground shots of fractal formation by A.J.Samuels
Click on thumbnail to enlarge A Pole shot by Stuart Dike. Copyright 1996. Dual codes for lunar astronomy at Chisledon 1996 Three related crop pictures appeared in the summer of 1996 at Stonehenge (July 7), Windmill Hill (July 30) and Chisledon (August 2). All were thought by most people to represent Julia sets from modern fractal mathematics. Instead, as I discussed in a previous essay ("The Stonehenge Code"), they actually represented certain aspects of lunar astronomy as practiced long ago, at megalithic sites close to where they were found. (i) Stonehenge of July 7 showed the Moon at sunset, varying in phase from "new to full". It spends 15 days at sunset above the visible horizon while growing in phase, then another 14.5 days under the visible horizon while waning in phase, for 29.5 days total. (ii) Windmill Hill of July 30 showed the Moon at midnight, varying in phase from "half to full to half", for just 11 days above the visible horizon, and possibly at a northern latitude of 60 to 65 degrees. (iii) Chisledon of August 2 showed two small drawings. On its right we saw a "Full Moon and Half Moon" with two broad arrows, while on its left we saw a "lunar phase diagram" with a central pointer:
(a) Considering first the "Full Moon and Half Moon", I found using a program from http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.html that one of its two broad arrows pointed on the horizon to where a new Moon rose (290 degrees azimuth) at sunset on July 16, just two weeks earlier. Likewise, its other arrow pointed on the horizon to where a full Moon set (110 degrees azimuth) at sunset on July 30, only three days earlier:
This first crop picture seemingly told us how to interpret Stonehenge of July 7, which also showed a variation of lunar phases from new to full at sunset. Its two azimuth values of 290 and 110 degrees are very season-specific, and indicate a precise time within any year just after the summer solstice in late July. (b) Considering next the "lunar phase diagram", I found that the schematic lunar phases as shown there match actual lunar phases from July 24 (half) to July 30 (full) to August 6 (half) of 1996, when observing the Moon at midnight: Furthermore, its central pointer indicated a precise lunar phase for midnight 00:00 on August 3 of 1996, only hours after that picture was found
This second crop picture seemingly told us how to interpret Windmill Hill of July 30, which also showed a variation of lunar phases from half to full to half at midnight. The length of time required to go from "half to full to half" was shown at Chisledon 1996 as 13 days (July 24 to August 6), which is correct for a summer solstice near latitude 51 degrees North. That is somewhat longer than for Windmill Hill in 1996 (11 days), but identical to that shown at Milk Hill in 2001 (13 days). In summary, those two small drawings at Chisledon in 1996 gave us precise if subtle instructions on how to decode Stonehenge and Windmill Hill of the same year in terms of lunar astronomy, but we did not understand its dual astronomical codes from 1996 to 2007. Meanwhile, during that long period of misunderstanding, at least one well-known faker of crop pictures claimed that Stonehenge 1996 was made by other local fakers! He discussed it solely in terms of a Julia set, and never once mentioned anything about astronomy or the Moon: see www.circlemakers.org/la.html, "How beautiful in the mind's eye is truth, and how ugly is a lie."---John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding,1690. Red Collie |
