Wessex Ridgeway, nr Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 20th June.

Updated Monday 25th June  2001

This formation, which was discovered Wednesday 20th June, has turned out to be another of those rather disappointing, crudely constructed efforts that looked as if it had been smashed down with lead lined stompers, probably by the same team of clumsy corn crunchers that messed up a field at Silbury Hill the previous week. 

The formation is situated some half mile from the magnificent stone circle complex at Avebury and can be seen from the Henge itself. 

A central flattened circle surrounded by three rings, two thick and one slender, the slender one just happens to be the width of my foot, hmmm. Surrounding this arrangement are nine circles, (approx) 30ft diameter each, which are connected by a path running through the center of each one. Heaps of torn and broken plants are evident and all the wheat in central areas is heavily pressed into the ground, unlike a real event. The whole thing has a diameter of 200ft and is placed within a field of immature wheat. 

If this is the best these people can do I would suggest they book into circle making school at the earliest opportunity. 

© Charles R Mallett   

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