Updated Saturday 10th August 1996
An aerial shot by Steve Alexander. Copyright 1996.
Field Report
Crop Type: Wheat.
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Images by Stuart Dike. Copyright 1996.
Roundway Hill, a renowned location for Crop Circles since 1990, has a very nice small Dumbbell on it's slopes facing towards Hopton Barracks.
Situated on the steeped part of the Hill, the Dumbbell is the simplest form of its type incorporating a 50ft circle with an joining Bar 24ft in length running into a head circle some 27 feet in diameter. Both circles are clockwise in rotation, with a neat Nest Centre in the larger of the two circles, tightly wound around an exposed earthen patch with no indentation visible.
The floor construction was neat, although people had already been inside, but the crop was forking into the standing wall around the circle, in bunches, indicating a slightly outward motion. Indeed, the flattened plants on the outer parts of the circle were pointing away from the main floor lay.
The connecting avenue separating the two circles, was just over 3ft in width, and flowed into the head circle, but there was an underlying pathway that extended to the central point of the circle. The overspill of the avenue, overlaid the flattened crop of the circle, almost as if the connecting avenue was originally narrower, and decided to increase it's width, but overspilled on top of the head circle's floor construction. The overall height of the crop was 900mm.
A number of rocks are visible inside, especially the head circle, but this hill has a very brittle type that tends to shatter very easily, and has many surface pieces in the field.
It's always nice to be able to see the older designs from seasons past, and this formation at Roundway was a pleasure to visit, in this nostalgic location.
Report 20th July.
Stuart Dike.
