Updated Thursday 21st August 1997
Image Dr Andrew King Copyright 1997
Two circles connected with a winded path (near Chiseldon);visited Aug. 1st 97:
Close to the first simple circle was a second formation which is not visible from the main street. The small road west of the first circle (parallel to A346) to the south brings you to a small hill where the road makes a left turn. One can see the formation from that corner lying in the field south of that position. I spoke to a farm worker at that field. He said the formation appeared between Friday 25th of July and Monday 28th. He was working there Friday and Monday, It was not there on Friday but on Monday morning.
The formation consists of a big cycle (ca. 25m) and a smaller one (ca. 15m) both were connected with a winded path with a length of about 150m and a width of about 1.50m. The bigger circle was a very nice spiral. The CENTER of the spiral was not in the geometrical centre of the circle. The spiral started in the centre and moved clockwise to the edge and the path to the next circle was a perfect continuation of the circle pattern. The path continued the direction of the pattern into the second circle which was entered at the right edged (seen from the path) and described a counter clock spiral ending in the centre of the circle.
The wheat formation looked very fresh and not demolished although it was nearly a week old. The crop was also forming a nice thick "crop-carpet" with a thickness of 5-10 cm.
I spend about 2 hours in the field. A Dutch couple entered the field then and brought a set of dowser's rods which were made from simple copper. It was the first time that I had such a set in my hands. They borrowed me the set until the evening (in the Barge Inn) that I could try them alone after they left. When I walked in the tramline of the smaller circle I noticed that the right one was following the edge of the circle when I left the circle while the other one was still following the tramline. I was very astonished about that first experience. I tried the same experiment in the bigger circle. The result was different: The right rod was always pointing to the centre of the pattern while the other one was pointing in the direction of the tramline. I passed the whole circle from one end to the other and the right rod was maintaining the position of the center. When I turned around I noticed that the right rod was still pointing to the centre, crossing with the left rod. I was quite astonished about the different behaviour of the right rod in the clockwise and counterclockwise circles. Does anybody have an explanation for that?
Reported by Dr. Uwe Engelmann .
