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Image Peter Sorensen  Copyright 2000

FIELD REPORT

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Images Stuart Dike & M.J.Fussell Copyright 2000

We arrived at this rather forgotten small dumbbell late on Tuesday evening. We knew it was small enough to photograph with the light we had, but I had no idea how deceptively good this formation really was that day.

On entering the larger circle, I immediately noticed once again an unmistakable referencing to the tramlines. The formation was positioned within two tramlines, on a diagonal location, close to the corner of the field, just a hedgerow away from the quaint Stanton hump-back bridge, along the Avon Kennett Canal.

The floor construction was extremely important for the crop circle community. Many of the larger designs, feature a different kind of floor lay, but this little cracker at Stanton, boasted the most amazing pattern. Sometimes I discuss the way the floor is flattened within formations, but this dumbbell had all the hallmarks of the earlier designs from 10 years ago. A wonderful fluid feeling to the lay, with two rotational centres in the large circle, and a very nice curling spur coming off into the tramline. From the photographs you can see this very interesting feature, with a width of 6 feet. In fact the entire formation had the sensation of rapid motion, as if the whole process took only a few seconds to make.

The smaller circle included a joined additional circle with a clockwise rotation. The additional circle was only 7ft in diameter, but was wonderfully constructed, with a very nice tight spiral. The top circle was 13.6 ft in diameter, but the larger circle surveyed at 44ft.

The large circle has quite a complex floor pattern, as the crop was flattened in different directions, because of the two centres disrupting the traditional spiral. The crop itself was in bunches, with a very playable sensation under foot. You could literally bounce on the crop, as you walked around the formation.

Very nice formation situated in a remote part of the countryside, away from the more elaborate formations.

Reported by Stuart Dike

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Images Janet Tucker (Medway Crop Circles) Copyright 2000

We visited the Stanton Bridge formation last week (27th July I think!) & found this delicate twisted knot in 1 small satellite circle. They looked quite fresh! This extremely tight knot was found in the grape shot circle that   is visible from Peter's aerial shot near to the tramline, just past  the tractor curves.  It was in this original formation -   I feel Stuart would have seen  it, as it was close to the tramline, so maybe it appeared later   (again!).

Reported by Janet & Graham Tucker.