Bishop Cannings (2) , Nr Devizes, Wiltshire. Reported 22nd August

Image by Peter Sorensen's Homepage

This is in the field where the Magic Basket was (note the line made by the combine, where it cut through the crop) - perhaps this is a comment on the farmer's wanton act of destruction.

Peter Sorensen.

Here's what I believe to be a very accurate illustration (given the disparity) of the 'addendum' to the field in which the basket was wove. Darren Francis and myself were likely the first to actually enter these new formations. Certainly nobody had scribed paths into the solitary circle and 'speech marks,' which lends credence to its authenticity. ('But of course,' cry the tabloids, 'Rod Dickinson et al can walk tight ropes'). Is this also the first time the circlemakers have circumscribed a fixed feature of a field, namely the metal trough as seen in the first symbol?

For me, this alien vernacular is not a 'formation,' as such, but is anecdotal and is not what we are used to seeing. That is to say, if the basket was the opus then this is the author's/artists's feelings/words about the desecration of it, and these 'words' are solemn, sad and even annoyed. If formations in general are equivocal and there is a purpose beyond the artistic values of the basket that was perhaps meant to 'do' something, these symbols simply 'get the job done' without the art. The basket was never there long enough to fulfil its 'purpose.'

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Peter Ainsworth.

A number of symbols in wheat surrounding the space where the 'Basket' formation was cut out, including several figure '6's, one of which encloses a water trough, an oval containing a v-shaped symbol, and a circle with a straight pathway with forked end. These stretch across an area about 200 feet wide.

Reported by A.J Samuels