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Pole shots by Stuart Dike Copyright 1999
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The village of Compton Dando, is set
within its own valley, about five miles from the City of Bath. The countryside around this
area is particularly beautiful and idyllic. What a setting for another small but
impressive local formation for the Crop Circle Connector to report on.
The formation is located just outside of the Village of Compton Dando, situated over the
brow of the field, looking towards the valley. Its elusive location is probably why we
didn't manage to spot it earlier, as it formed in very young wheat, as the immature crop
is starting to grow back towards the sun. This indicated that the formation has been there
for nearly a week, but we only knew of its whereabouts on Sunday 23rd May.
Its about 70 - 80 feet in Diameter, and incorporates two crescents, the smaller of the two
is set inside the larger, and faces in the opposite direction. We call them interlocking
crescents, similar to the designs back in 1994. The outer section which surrounds the
crescents is flowing in an anticlockwise rotation, with is also the case for the small
circle inside the inner crescent.
The floor construction is quite hard to comment on because of its age, but there were no
signs of mud or scrapings on the plants themselves, but the crop did display what I call
the fork effect. This is where you can see sections of the crop have been flattened in
stages around the outer perimeter of the design. This was present all the way around the
formation, and may have been more apparent when it was younger. But the overall quality of
the lay was very pleasing, as very young wheat can produce messy floor constructions,
especially at this stage in the season. The Compton Dando formation was one of the neatest
designs I have discovered in immature crop.
A wonderful setting for a crop circle, and certainly off the beaten track from our normal
surveillance routes.
Report by Stuart
Dike
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