Silbury Hill, nr Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 6th July.

GPS Reference SU09946835

Updated Wednesday 27th September 2000

An aerial long shot showing sacred Silbury Hill with the little "Three-in-Line" formation aligned with man-made Neolithic mound. This elegant triplet is a classic style from the late 1980s!

Also note that there is still water in the lake that nearly surrounds Silbury. The lake usually has water only in the Spring, and it usually is all dry in early May -- no one I've tackled to here remembers it ever being wet in the Summer!

FIELD REPORT

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Three circles of Mary

The ancient earthen mound of Silbury Hill, has become a major hotspot of circle activity, or should I say formations? We have seen a number of different designs in the shadow of Silbury, but this latest event has immediately taken us back once again to an earlier time of crop circling.

Three circles have appeared, in a line, facing directly towards Silbury. The field in question has seen a number of events down through the years, but strangely enough the majority have been circles. In 1988 we have a quintuplet, in 1991, we have a very nice dumbbell formation. 1993 we have a formation comprised of circular elements, and in mid July in 1995 we had a very nice single circle. A flower petal design appeared almost in the same spot as this years circle’s in 1996. We then experienced a break for 97,98, and even in 1999.

The year 2000 has seen a return of the phenomenon to this field, and the Crop Circle Connector was most impressed with them. A very important part of the positioning of crop circles, is there ability to lay on energy lines or Ley lines as some people prefer to call them. These three circles are particularly special, not only for their charming simplicity, but for the fact that they are positioned directly on the Mary Line. As many of you know, the Mary line, is the feminine line with the Michael line, which runs from St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall, to The Wash in East Anglia. A stretch of some 300 miles, both of them run through the Avebury landscape, and through the Stone Circle itself. The Michael line follows the path directly down the Stone Avenue, but the Mary line breaks off and flows through Silbury Hill, and through these three new circles.

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The circles are of various sizes, the two smaller ones either side of the central circle are very similar in diameter, only a couple of hundred millimeters difference. The small circle closest to Silbury is 17.5ft in diameter. The larger circle of the three has a diameter of 54.10ft, with the centre offset by 19ft from the left-hand side tramline from the air. The smaller circle again on the far side, has a diameter of 17.1 feet. All three circles have an anti-clockwise rotation, and were very impressively constructed.

The field has also a number of drill lines, which are straight lines left by the drill when the field was sowed. Quite a number of circles I feel position themselves in relation to the tramline, as if they use them as makers for their work. The drill lines, as well as the tramlines within this field at Silbury, have in my opinion been used to help mark out the three circles. Take a look at the tramline in relation to the largest of the three circles, it is place directly on the edge. But the smaller circle towards Silbury has also been placed with its edge on the lager drill line. We have seen this many times, and it is always a feature, which is closely monitored by myself.

We enjoyed these three circles on this balmy summers evening in Wiltshire, as it is always important to remember the true elements of what started this phenomenon, as the Circlemakers have very kindly produced for us at Silbury.

Report by Stuart Dike.

Whilst out today 07/07/00 we came across a new formation opposite Silbury Hill in a dumbbell form comprising of three circles, the largest being 50ft in diameter and the two small ones 15ft in diameter the crop lay was in an anti clockwise direction, the circles were 12ft apart, quite a tidy lay. The crop was wheat.

Report Basil Cole (Cropfly) & David Nixon (Cropspider)

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