THE EARLY BIRD DIDN’T CATCH THE WORM AT AVEBURY!  

The Avebury Henge itself, has certainly in the heart of the crop circle countryside, but it can also boast its own formations in the past, which includes quite a few since the early nineties.  Along the eastern side of the henge, which is the only part of the henge without any stones, is a high embankment, which over looks a guaranteed crop field, nearly ever year since I have been crop circling.  

This particular field has been home to many designs in the past, but this year we have two events. The field is now Oil Seed Rape, and as we all know, this crop can be very hard to view formations, especially if there is no elevation. This is just the case at Avebury, and while flying on the 9^th of June, we spotted this small Thought bubble design, quite a way into the field, with the head circle facing Avebury. It is not far from the same spot we had a small scroll from the 2000 crop circle season, but it was positioned a lot closer to Green Street. 

Full image in the Crop Circle archives

From the look of the design, we estimate it to be at least two weeks old, possibly older?  We can judge the age, by the age of the crop, (as the flowers have turned) and the fact that the majority of the crop inside the formation is now about three quarters the way up to the standing crop. There is an unusual piece of standing crop, within the head circle  which separates it from the seconds circle on the tail.  

This field was also the same field to a superb formation back in 1994, known to all of us as the Web, which sparked Mark Fussell’s interest in starting The Crop Circle Connector. 

Full image in the Crop Circle archives

Although this was a nice surprise to spot a new event, it also put doubts in our minds, to the fact that there must be a lot more formations out there not being reported?  I could be wrong, but this is an area well known to the crop circle spotter, but this one certainly got away, or should I say wriggled away! 

Report by Stuart Dike.