A clever “number code” for 0-1-2-3-3-3 was drawn in crops at Etchilhampton Hill on August 19, 2013, using angular rotations to specify different digits in the style of Barbury Castle from June 1, 2008: what could these numbers mean?  

Modern crop pictures often encode very clever puzzles of a mathematical kind (see time2012b). A new crop picture at Etchilhampton Hill on August 19, 2013 showed many subtle variations in its outer parts. These led us to look for some “number code” which might explain such variations?  

In some ways, the new crop picture resembles a famous image of “pi to ten digits” which was drawn in crops on June 1, 2008, and solved by astrophysicist Mike Reed (see www.dailymail.co.uk):    

We can see three little dots on the left-hand side of both crop pictures, as well as a small round circle just above the centres of both images. The new crop picture at Etchilhampton also shows two thin rings of “grid marks” in its outer parts. There seem to be 6 x 13 grid marks along its inner perimeter, or 6 x 15 grid marks along its outer perimeter.  

At Barbury Castle in June of 2008, a series of angular rotations were encoded cleverly into a long, four-turn Archimedean spiral. Each angular rotation, starting from the centre, provided a different digit of the fundamental constant pi = 3.141592654. For example its first digit “3” was encoded by a rotation of 3 x 36^o = 108^o, followed by a “decimal point”. Its next digit “1” was encoded by a rotation of 1 x 36^o = 36^o, while its next digit “4” was encoded by a rotation of 4 x 36^o = 144^o, and so on.  

Might the crop artists be telling us that they have encoded a similar scheme of counting in this new 2013 crop picture? By switching colour from yellow-orange to blue, we can see fine details of the new picture more clearly. Looking at the slide below, we can see that the tips of six “broad arrows” from Etchilhampton Hill on August 19, 2013 seem to vary in size as they go anti-clockwise around the perimeter:  

Could this be a novel scheme of “counting”? Can we derive specific numbers from this new crop picture, if we study the tips of those “broad arrows” more carefully?  

Yes we can! Looking next at the expanded image shown below, we can see that the crop artist has kindly added a symbol “zero” near the centre to tell us where to start:  

Proceeding anti-clockwise from “zero”, the other five “tips” grow wider with greater angular rotation in the order 0-1-2-3-3-3. Three little dots on the left-hand side confirm a number series 1-2-3, but for some reason are not evenly spaced.  

What could these numbers mean, in terms if the image of a “:binary star system” shown at its centre? (see comments). There is no way to know at present. As of August 21, Nova Delphini 2013 shows no signs of further outburst (see the “light curve” linked on www.universetoday.com).  

Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew)  

P,S, We would like to thank Rich Jarvis for help, and also Mike Reed, wherever his excellent spirit might be today.