What an
amazing sight to behold at sun rise for those that celebrated the
Solstice at West Kennett Long Barrow! This formation is overlooked
by the Long Barrow and is only a few hundred metres away. A cheeky
one!
I was on my
way to Milk Hill to do a ground report on the formation there but
decided to visit West Kennett instead. I visited mid afternoon,
there were still a lot of people around Long Barrow and there was a
steady stream of visitors to the crop circle. I mention this because
even visiting so soon there had already been many visitors and
therefore the crop was much trampled.
On entering
the formation the crop was not flattened down but rather quite tufty.
The lay was similar to that as the formation in Alton Priors. It
lacked the swirling flow of the ‘Phoenix’. In the lower ‘half’ of
the formation the wheat was laying mainly in an anti-clock wise
direction. The exception were the two ‘spirals’ that were in the
centre. The lay was in a clockwise direction in the upper ‘half’.
Again there were two ‘spirals’ that went in a clockwise direction.
In some parts there was some overlapping of crop. Generally, the lay
was neat and tidy.
I examined the
crop at various points, and there was a lot of damage, lots of
broken stalks but I would imagine hundreds had been around before
me. For those of you who are into such things, I couldn’t find any
evidence of elongated nodes or expulsion cavities. I did meet two
friendly French visitors, one of whom had some kind of device for
measuring the magnetic field (magnetometer) and he assured me that
there was no difference with the figures inside/outside the
formation. Lots of enthusiasm from visitors, many of whom were
reporting how ‘powerful’ it was. What a fabulous setting!
© Report and
Photographs – Mike Callahan
