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Location: HOUNDEAN BOTTOM, LEWES, EAST SUSSEX
First reported: 24 July 2005
Crop: Wheat
Design: Cloverleaf, trident and two circles
Surveyed by: ANDY THOMAS & HELEN SEWELL, 29th July 2005
REPORT: This field overlooking the main A27 roundabout into Lewes has
been
visited twice before by the crop circle phenomenon, once in 1990 and
again
in 2003. This year we have a line of three shapes: a three-petalled
cloverleaf, a trident attached to a circle, and a single small circle.
The formation is just visible from the road, but better seen from the
Lewes
to Brighton railway or from the fields to the north of the old Juggs
Road
pathway between Lewes and Kingston village, from where it can be
looked down
on clearly.
The cloverleaf has three large petals, approximately 40ft across at
their
widest, with a 73ft central circle of standing crop binding the petals
together. The lay is swept across each petal in a predominantly
clockwise
fashion. Tracer paths seem to have been laid to mark an outline, and
the
crop has then been filled in. Where the inward-sweeping crop of each
petal
meets the inner standing circle, the crop is curiously laid up
against, and
over, the wall of the standing part, softening the edges at these
spots
instead of giving a clear boundary, although the actual geometrical
layout
appears to be accurate.
Next in the line, 30ft or so east from the cloverleaf, a 28ft circle
leads
by a path to a trident design, each 'prong' of which is 16ft in length
and
5ft in width. Another 30ft on from this is a single small circle of
9ft
diameter.
The lay is generally neat (with all circular lays clockwise), but the
most
impressive aspect is the centre of the 28ft circle attached to the
trident,
which displays a nested centre of a type not seen in Sussex before,
giving a
bowl-like effect generally more reminiscent of Wiltshire designs, and
very
attractive to the eye.
Report by ANDY THOMAS, 29 July 2005
Southern Circular Research
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