WOODBOROUGH HILL. This small hillside overlooks the vale of Pewsey, with sweet treetops, and gentle slopes. The place could tell a tale or two on crop circles, as it has been a hotspot since the early days of crop circles in Wiltshire. Once again this beautiful location becomes a focal point for the latest formations.  

Around the middle of July, we started to receive numerous reports of events in Wiltshire. The team had just finished with the Avebury Trusloe formation, and the discussions of the return of the old locations hadn’t even settled, when we received word of this ground breaking design at Woodborough!  

Whenever a design appears under the slopes of Woodborough, a certain air of excitement amounts. This is one of the sacred places around the Avebury area, the reason for this is very hard to explain. We have discussed many times before the power of locations, and how they can enhance the whole experience within crop circles. This place on the south side of Woodborough would certainly fit into this idealism.  

Situated on the flattened area below the gentle slopes on the south side, with the Hedgehog treetops dominating the skyline, this enigmatic and refreshingly different design certainly captured people’s imagination. It really was so different to what we come to expect around the area each year, and definitely worlds apart from the latest design appearing. We say that, as the last design was Avebury Trusloe pattern. Now only a day later, we experience what is possibly an interference pattern within the crop, and very unusual in the history of the phenomenon.  

What we receive today is something entirely different, and perhaps more evocative, with designs on a huge scale. 

From the air this design became more apparent, with what I describe as two designs placed over the top of each other, and twisted around. From the ground it is totally incomprehensible, and was specifically designed for the air, there is no doubt about that! The two designs can easily be separated by a pathway, which creates the square around the inner rotated pattern. The pattern has now been rotated around using PhotoShop to show that there is some kind of intended symmetry. But there seems to be a slight misalignment on the larger crescent in the middle section of the design.  

So what are we to make of this pattern? Not even when it’s rotated correctly, that it matches? Or was there an error, can we even mention the word error when it comes to the Circlemakers?  Possibly, after 13 years of experience with crop circles, I have never mentioned that the true Circlemakers create perfect designs. You only have to look at the early days to reach these conclusions, but then again it was a different time. What we receive today is something entirely different, and perhaps more evocative, with designs on a huge scale, and with what seems to be perfect geometry.  

The design at Woodborough has just pushed the boundaries even further I believe. We could just start to see designs of this kind, using multiple patterns on top of each other, with a message we haven’t deciphered as of yet. Even on the ground the formation was pretty impressive. We can see from Steve Alexander’s aerial shots, that the small semi ring in the foreground is beautifully constructed with a wonderful fan effect creating strands lying across the outer ring. There were also other details including a raised bunched center, something we have seen a few times this season. A formation you could say full of surprises, and maybe one of many of its kind in the future?  

Report by Stuart Dike