Field Report for Avebury, Trusloe. Friday, June 24th
by Mike Callahan

 

As I approached the formation I studied the outer triangles.
 

There were some lovely swirling lays but with lots of standing stems. Most of the standing stems were standing straight and had no damage at all although around them the crop was flattened. There appeared to be various ‘centres’ of these outer triangles with irregular circular swirls as part of the general lay. 

The swirls in the inner triangles were often more intense, again irregular.
 

The crop was not woven together tightly as in ‘nests’ as found in some formations. The pathways had a flowing lay and again there were many points where the crop was intensely swirled. 

I checked out the lay at various points in the formation. There were multi-layers, often 3 to 4 layers and pointing in different directions.
 

After perusing the general lay I looked at the nodes of the crop in various parts of the formation. Stems bent at the nodes were found throughout the formation.
 

Many stems appeared to be slightly warped/kinked. These were the stems that were left standing and not stems that had been flattened and were growing upwards. There were groups of stems with bent nodes. I found no evidence of blown nodes. I compared the stems outside the triangles and they were straight. I couldn’t find any stems outside the triangles with the same characteristics. 

It is worth highlighting two things about this formation that were pointed out to me by another visitor who had many years of experience. (Thanks for the use of your steps!). Firstly, if you look at ‘Image A’

 

there appears to be an intense area of energy along the path. If you look towards the bottom of the photograph whatever made that has taken away some of the side of the path. Secondly, look at ‘Images B and C’  

 

from another area of the formation it can be seen on close inspection that there is a very thin line of crop going against the flow of crop either side of it. It was a very thin line, maybe 3/4 stems wide but it went on for some distance.

Looking around the whole formation it just looked and felt that the area had been ‘hit’ by all these energy centres, often seeming irregular and untidy but on closer inspection making up a controlled and amazing pattern. The gaps in the triangle seemed to be part of the general lay and not made by visitors.
 

© Photographs by Mike Callahan