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Code: SUSSEX 2004/04
Location: RINGMER, NR LEWES, EAST SUSSEX
First reported: 15th June 2004
Crop: Wheat
Design: Ringed with central 'Gaia'-type symbol and separate circle
Dimensions: 100ft total diameter
Surveyed by: ALLAN BROWN and ANDY THOMAS, 16th June 2004
REPORT: This formation is south of the road from Lewes to Ringmer,
near
Malling Down. From the look of the crop, we suspect it had been there
several days before discovery by Fran Rawlinson, as it has grown back
up
quite vigorously. Because of this, we didn't enter the formation, so
as not
to cause damage, but the pattern was very close to the edge of the
field and
we were able to observe it closely from there.
It is a very simple formation, slightly reminiscent of the Gaia symbol,
or a
Neolithic Goddess figurine. Examining the edge of the ring from the
tramline, the crop shows signs of creasing, kinking and breakage. The
pathways were about 3.5ft wide and the crop seems to have been, for the
most
part, laid in an anticlockwise direction.
The central circle is around 16ft diameter (measurements have been
approximated). The position of the outlying 10ft single circle was
slightly
more offset to the left than the slightly idealised diagram suggests.
Interestingly, there was no visible trail into the single circle
whatsoever.
The Ringmer area had two formations last year, one of which was almost
certainly man-made.
Report by ALLAN BROWN & ANDY THOMAS, 16th June 2004
Southern Circular Research
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