FOUR TUMULI, ONE ENCLOSURE & A
WONDROUS FORMATION
The farmer has expressed his
wishes that people must not enter this formation, otherwise this
beautiful design will be cut out!
Many of you who have followed the
crop circle formations around the ancient landscape of Avebury, are
fully aware of its heritage, with the huge stone circle of Avebury and
Silbury Hill showcasing the area. But the surrounding landscape of
these sites has other treats for us modern day pilgrims, as we travel
back and forth through our daily lives following the crop circles.
After thirteen years of crop
circling in this general area of Wiltshire, which is still regarded as
the homeland of the phenomenon, you would feel your coverage to
different sites would be now exhausted. This was not the case at this
location, on the borders of North Down and Calstone Down.
North Down has a wealth of
ancient reminisces of our farming ancestors, from their daily lives,
to their dead. This beautiful remote location, is separating two downs
by an old Roman Road, which aligns itself directly towards Silbury
Hill, has seen few formations in the rich crop circle history of this
area. However never have we witnessed such a blatant signal of the
continuing connection to ancient sites and crop circles by this latest
formation, by the directly alignment of the formation to four
Neolithic Burial Mounds, which date back some five thousand years.
Are we looking at a
clear communication of the ancient knowledge, which needs to return to
our modern society?
From the first initial sighting
of this formation, we were told of the close proximity of these
ancient round barrows to the actual design. Immediately the connection
to the
Normanton Down formation near Stonehenge last year sprang to
mind. Not only was it just a day after the 4th of July as
Normanton Down, but the location names were oddly similar, both
appearing on ancient downs, and next to Neolithic burial mounds. This
connection can not be ignored I feel, as this is a strong signal to
indicate the importance of the message being conveyed here.
Is this one of the important
messages by the Circlemakers, deliberately connecting themselves a
year apart?
The 2003 design is far removed
from the design at Stonehenge in 2002. Although both spectacular in
there own way, the North Down formation shows a far more subtle
respect for the aligned tumuli on the downs. You can see from the
aerial images, the exact central alignment of the formation to the
mounds, which is even more powerful signal than the Normanton Down
formation.
The formation appeared in spring
Barley, which is a little behind in maturity to its common variety,
but this in a way was needed for the Circlemakers to create just a
fluid looking pattern on the ground. The intricacy inside the
formation was quite breathtaking, as you stand in-between hundreds and
hundreds of small clumps of crop, and small rings, that make up the
basis of the design. This creates the illusion as you see it from the
air, as this was indeed intended for the design to be seen.
It’s a masterful piece of
work, which sends out a clear and concise communication to our
subconscious.
The floor construction itself
certainly needed an immature crop to create this design. I felt that
if the Barley has been any riper, the whole process would have looked
rather messy. However from our rather brief visit to the formation,
kindly granted by the Farmer, we noticed the fluidity of the crop
around the small standing clumps. This ultimately creates hundreds of
small rings, which then creates the standing crop shapes. It’s a
masterful piece of work, which sends out a clear and concise
communication to our subconscious. You can feel the ancient atmosphere
at this location, surrounded by burial mounds, and a now ploughed
enclosure.
It was a pleasure to visit this
location, and stands were people have lived and farmed for over five
thousand years, within unspoiled countryside by the twenty first
century. But the people of the new millennium can not ignore what has
happened here, as we witness the past communicating with the present.
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