Newton St Loe, Near Bath, North Somerset. Reported 17th May.
Updated Wednesday 1st July 1998
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Field Report
© 1998 Peter R. Sørensen
The Newton St Loe area, is rapidly becoming the place for our local crop circles this year, and at such a early stage in the season. This time we have a formation in very young green Barley, situated in the same field as the 1993 formation, and just one field over from the amazing formation in 1991.
Placed on the gentle slopes overlooking the Duel Carriageway to the city of Bath, this formation resembles in many ways the designs from 1994, with it curved axis, comprising of four circles, each one merging into each other. The top circle, appears to be the smallest of the four, with an enclosing ring, which separates the second connected circle, to its adjoining third.
The middle circle within the formation is the largest of the four, and is slightly curving away from the ringed circles placed at the top. The ring itself, appears to be running into the first tramline along from the field boundary. The second tramline in from the boundary, is just touching the second circle, which indicates possibly they were used as setting out markers for the formation, as the entire design is running across these tramlines, at a gentle angle.
From this first report of the formation, the floor construction is mostly anticlockwise in rotation, but I could not report on the very bottom circle, as it was out of my field of vision. From what I could see, the ring is also rotating anticlockwise.
It would appear that this formation my have some link to the Weyhill design in April, as again we see the connection with a possible shows some kind of planetary alignment, or is showing us some significant event in the near future, Perhaps as the season progresses, this will become more apparent.
Report by Stuart Dike
