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On approaching the location on Friday afternoon, I was struck by the wonder of Silbury Hill. Usually I see it from the Long Barrow direction. The view of the sacred mound from the path to this formation was impressive and I managed to take some good photographs of it. 

On entering the formation I was taken by the peace and tranquillity that I felt. It was good to see Cosmic Dave again, after meeting him last Sunday in the formation at Southfield, but apart from Cosmic there was nobody else around.  All I could hear in the warm sun was the sound of the Starlings overhead. 

This formation lacks the vastness of some of the recent ones, but makes no mistake it is impressive in its own right. On the surface it seems to be a simple design, compared to the recent formations but I thought it had many intricacies. On entering, the crop was crunchy underfoot and I assume there hadn’t been too many visitors. The sweeping lay on the outside was in a clockwise direction. It wasn’t completely flat there were lots of curves throughout and there seemed to be a lovely ‘artistic’ feel to it. The lay in the paths between the ‘tadpoles’ was flowing smoothly and alternated between flowing towards the centre and then flowing away from the centre before joining the outer section. In the centre was a circle of standing crop and the surrounding crop was laid neatly in a clockwise direction around it. 

I checked for anomalies and I couldn’t see any of significance. I checked certain areas carefully and I did see these white ‘chip’ marks that seem to occur in some of the formations. Usually, I can find a few of them together on adjacent stems and they are parallel. I would be interested to know if these are of any significance or are they merely a natural phenomenon. Another observation I made was that next to the standing crop at the centre were a few stalks that had appeared to be cut. I assume they were not broken as it seems to too 'clean' to be broken (see photograph) and I couldn't seen any broken stems nearby. Perhaps the stems had been cut for a souvenir - thought I'd mention it as I've seen this before. 

There was a warm and powerful energy to this formation and the nearby views of Silbury Hill and the ‘Avenue’ are also very special. 

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