Code: SUSSEX 2005/05
Location: LANCING, WEST SUSSEX
First reported: 8 August 2005
Crop: Wheat
Design: Ring with central motif
Surveyed by: ANDY THOMAS & HELEN SEWELL, 14th
August 2005
REPORT: The field containing this formation is
in a very obscure location in isolated fields in the vicinity of Lancing
College and the historical tree clump Lancing Ring. Finding and reaching
it after the initial report was thus tricky, the result of which was that
it was harvested before a close inspection could be made.
Essentially a thick 31ft wide ring with an overall
diameter of 222ft, some kind of central motif was originally
present. Exactly what, is now hard to discern, but some kind of
oval/light bulb shape of around 40ft diameter, with two 42ft paths
leading into it from an inner bulge on the outer ring could just be made
out after harvest.
Without wishing to cast aspersions onto it, there is
something in the overall look of what's left of the design which suggests
it may have been rather logo-like. A few years back, human circlemakers
Team Satan made a logo in a very remote area of Sussex, perhaps so that
it wouldn't be inspected by too many people; was this something
similar? But that's nothing more than a vague thought in the absence of
any clear ground evidence.
Whatever, the remains can still be clearly seen when
standing on the slope north of Lancing Ring.
With the fields of Sussex being gathered in fast, it
may well be this is the last local formation of the year, ending what has
been a rather quiet (and on the whole geometrically simpler) year for
Sussex crop circles, with just five formations instead of our average ten
to twelve.
Report by ANDY THOMAS, 15 August 2005
Southern Circular Research
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