Avebury Avenue, nr Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 6th June
Updated Thursday 18th June
© 1998 Steve Alexander
Crop Circle Connector Field Report
A small wheel design located high on the hill overlooking the Avebury Avenue of stones, a position which has seen many formations in previous seasons, since 1991. Its very hard to detect due to the immaturity of the young Wheat, but its located between two tramlines, just below the tree covered Tumuli's which protect the ancient Burial Mounds.
The design resembles the Wheel feature, which
made up part of the sections on the much celebrated Barbury Castle formation, which
appeared back in 1991. The wheel was only about 50ft in diameter and very brushed in
appearance, but was part
of an explosion of formations at the end of the first week in June.
Report by Stuart Dike.
WHEEL WITH GRAPESHOT, AVEBURY AVENUE.
This formation appeared in wheat on the night
of 6th June. It is easily visible from Avebury Avenue and from the A4 to West Kennett from
Silbury Hill. It is very similar to the 'spoked circle' component of the 1991 Barbury
Castle formation.
The formation consists of a large ring (approx. 18 metres) with six curved 'spokes'
leading inwards to the centre. The ring has a clockwise lay. The spokes themselves 'flow'
in to the centre, where they meet and spiral together, creating a kind of whirlpool
effect. The crop itself is severely bent (with some stalks bent in different directions at
each node). There are many broken stalks in the centre.
There are also two grapeshot circles, side by side and resembling a horizontal '8', at the
upper mid-right of the formation. A narrow wall of crop separates these from each other
and from the ring. These are also spiralled clockwise, and contain many broken stalks but
few bent ones.
There are also a number of nodally-bent stalks along the tram-lines leading into the
formation, but these are not all bent in the same direction.
Access is very easy, from a path leading up from the bottom of Avebury Avenue. It is also
on National Trust land (according to a local farmer I spoke to), so entry should pose no
problem.
We visited this formation on 7th June at approx. 7.30pm. Nobody at the Barge Inn that
night seemed to know much about it, so unless somebody else visited it during the day, we
were the first in. It appeared on the same night as the nearby Beckhampton formation. It
is also only a few minutes walk (and on the other side of the hill) from the 5th June
formation at the
junction to the A4 and East Kennett road.
Reported by Darren Francis
