Stantonbury Hill Formation 1999

Field-Report from Thomas Peterlunger, Switzerland

To have an overlook to the formation you have to climb a little hill on the left side of the main street from Bath to Marksbury. But to enter the field you have to cross the busy street and go to the far corner of the long parking place.

Not many people took this way before we (three Swiss croppies) did, but we were definitely not the first. (There were footsteps inside the tramlines.)

The whole formation was very nice and interesting and included two mayor circles and two little grape shots (if we want to call it „one" formation at all!) A circle with a crescent and a circle with nine petals (I call it circular saw.) All plants were lied down counter clockwise. The circular saw had nine teeth and we could find some radial help lines below the flattened area in the centre. They started 2meters away from the centre point and leaded to a tangential-teeth. But the strange thing was, that only seven radius’ instead of nine could be found. One missing help line should be exactly inside a tramline. (so we can accept its disappearance..), but the second missing line should be there! The teeth themselves were formed quite exactly. (see picture number 1.)

Some parts of that circle showed a complex pattern of different layers on top of each other. For me, it was really difficult to say, which layer was first. Some „faults" looked strange to me, because it was more work for hoaxers to construct these faults than to do it correctly! (see picture number 2)

The grape shots where not round, but star shaped (or a little bad copy of the big circular saw). They looked aggressive to me. (The black line on the picture number 3 is my arm with the camera...).

The circle with the crescent was perfect in shape, but had no special details from interest. So I didn’t send ground shots from this one.

If you have more questions, please contact thomaspeterlunger@swissonline.ch

with friendly regards

Thomas