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Image M.J.Fussell Copyright 2000

FIELD REPORT

Image Steve Alexander Copyright 2000

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Images Stuart Dike & M.J.Fussell Copyright 2000

This latest formation, situated on the slopes opposite Furze Hill, is very close the medieval village of Shaw, which is positioned on high ground behind this rather favourable design.

This sloping field has only been used a few times in the nineties by the Circlemakers. The last time was way back in 1992, which consisted of a small triple dumbbell, with an offset pathway and circle. It was created on the same day as the 1992 crop circle competition in High Wycombe. It only seems like yesterday, that I was taking pole shots of this formation.

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Images Stuart Dike  Copyright 2000

Well, this design rang a few bells for us, when we received the aerial shots. It is very similar to a formation that appeared  at Charminster, near Dorchester on the 26^th of June 1994. 

(You can find this report in the 1994 archives). But this time, the design at Shaw is a simplification of its 1994 predecessor, and quite a lot smaller in diameter.

As you can see from the aerial shots, we have 11 small circles inside the middle section of crop, surrounded by a platted ring, which is quite unprecedented for floor constructions. If you can remember back to my report of the Basket Weave formation in 1999, I mentioned that we could possibly see more of the complex layering seen in the Basket for the 2000 crop circles. Well, this floor construction at Shaw is very similar, but on this occasion, we have two outer rings of crop running around the inner section of crop, and on the outside circumference of the ring. The middle section of the ring, was platted in two different directions, running outwards from the ring, and inward towards the central design. Very clever floor weaves, which could become the standard for future designs of this nature. But directions of crop, and laying over each other, to create this platted design.

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Images Stuart Dike  Copyright 2000

The central circles, all had standing centres, and were flowing in a clockwise rotation. In one particular circle, at the bottom of the middle section, was a very small circle with a tightly nested centre, with stalks neatly spiraled. A close up shot of this centre can be seen on the fourth image of the six pole shots on the report.

Report by Stuart Dike.