Lurkley Hill. nr Lockeridge, Wiltshire. Reported 22nd June.

Map Ref:  SU118660

Updated Tuesday 26th July  2005


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Reconstruction of the
2005 Lurkeley Hill formation

By Zef Damen


This formation was the very devil to find on the ground, I entrusted the obtaining of admission to an attractive Dutch lady who had also found exactly where the pattern was. She arranged to phone me when the time was right. This she did, but what a day, we arrived by the field, it was raining heavily and a thunder storm was imminent, we sat this out in my car and discovered that my battery was flat. Heyho. We scurried into the field and carried out the necessary, noting that the bloom was still on the stems and apart from the tractor lines the crop was not laid flat and was beginning to recover. The laid wheat stems showed no signs of being trodden down around the edges of the glyph, a good sign, nice one. We exited the field as another storm arrived.

NN2005

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Lurkely Hill, formation reported on the 22nd of June.

Visited on the 4th of July by Annemieke and Nick. 

Farmer Cameron (who lives in the big estate in East-Kennet) only allows people into the field after they  have asked permission. They insist on you leaving the car at the entrance of the field at the gate for the narrow road is a drive-through for the farmer. Admittance will be given until further notice for the same field will be used for clay-pigeon shootings later this month. 

From the top of the hill you have a lovely bird-eyes view. No permission is necessary to climb that hill. Despite of its being there for a few days yet it is rather unharmed because not many people have entered the field so far.

The complete formation has a rather "rough" lay. The biggest part of it is clock-wise but the outer circles are anti clock wise. There are no real centres like swirls to be found inside the formation. Where different directions of downed wheat meet the flow is really nice. 

The stems already show signs of phototropism. We did not find any blown,-or stretched nodes or any mechanical damage. The edges were quite sharp without any signs of extra pressure. It was a thrilling experience being in there( and not only because of the thunderstorm and a 18 feet high pole for pole shots).


Diagram Bertold Zugelder Copyright 2004

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