Update Sunday 28th July 1996
East Oakley, Nr Basingstoke, Hampshire. Reported 7th July.
An aerial shots by Lucy Pringle Copyright 1996.
CROP: Young Wheat.
Sometime in the first week in July, this amazing formation appeared very close to the Railway embankment near the town of East Oakley. It was situated in the corner of the field overlooking the Railway, but well hidden from the road, as the ground was very flat.
Resembling a South American possibly Mexican ancient symbol, this design was quite a surprise for such a built up area.
The main Head circle included 23 spokes radiating outwards from the circle's floor pattern. Equally spaced from what I could see at the time, and with the crop forking into the standing crop at the end of each spoke. The circle itself had quite an impressive anticlockwise swirl with a centre resembling a 'Fan' type pattern and was well preserved as I estimated the formation to be no more than five days old.
The central avenue of the formation were the main design was constructed included five arcs handed either side. The fourth and fifth arc down from the Head circle were used for right angled pathways tapering downwards and rejoining at the bottom. The fifth arc was running parallel with the outside pathway but set inside. Enclosed within the box section were two spirals symmetrical to each other, and placed near the base of the formation.
The quality of the floor pattern was pretty good, a few signs of mud on the stems but that may have been due to people entering in the week. The pathways which produced the main symmetrical Mexican feel symbol had hardly any signs of mud. There was evidence of slight crushing though, on the stems at the starting points for the pathways.
More details to follow for the overall dimensions, but I would say it's over a 100 feet in length.
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Images by Stuart Dike. Copyright 1996.
The Formation of "East Oakley Nr. Basingstoke,
Hampshire. Reported 7th July" is a formation much more closely related to Polynesian
or Hawaiian Pictographs than Mexican or South American types. I have studied Pictographs
for 20 years, and worked with the Museum of Natural History in Santa Barbara, CA. USA as a
volunteer typing and documenting similarities of the extensive cave art of the Chumash
Indians of the Central California coastal area to pictograph motifs found in Polynesia,
Australia and New Zealand, and I can tell you that there are similar motifs to this
formation found and recorded in the Polynesian and New Zealand heritage. This formation
would be well named as the "Kahuna" formation. John C. Baird
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