Curborough, near Lichfield, Staffordshire, Reported 31st May
Updated Thursday 11th June 1998
Image Copyright Mark Haywood 1998
Another formation has been discovered at Curborough, near Lichfield which consists of three small circles all joined together. It looks quite old but has an interesting design (they may not be circles but heart shapes, hard to say!!!). In the same field a very, very large circular marking can be seen. From a distance, it looks like a crop circle. If this is true, it spans 8 tram-lines which means it could be anything between 200ft - 400ft + across. More information and pictures to follow.
Reported by Mark Haywood.
Latest news:
The giant circle at Curborough is where the crop has been re-sown. It is not a circle even
though it looks like it. In the same field is a definite formation which looks like it is
3 weeks old. It is 3 circles joined. Each circle is approximately 10 metres across. It is
in barley. More news and pictures soon.
Crop formations in 1686 from A
Natural History of Staffordshire.
Please visit Mark Haywood's page for the details.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~mark.haywood/whatnew/plot/whatnew.html
An interesting piece of text taken from Plot's, A Natural History of Staffordshire of a possible set of crop circle encounters within this county in 1686. These Fairy Rings as they were interpreted to be, appeared in Pury-Hall and the grounds of Handfworth Church. Mark Haywood's discovery of these old texts are another part of the jigsaw to promote the concept that the phenomenon has been around longer than we possibly imagined.
