Silbury Hill Formation June 22nd 2006 Field Report

 

 

The formation is very easy to see from the road, also from the houses directly opposite, I guess any light of any kind could have been seen from the houses. I was a little alarmed to find a board in the crop as I entered the field, could have been unrelated although was a little too obvious.

 

On following the tramlines its easy to make your way to the formation without damaging any crop, as did the large vehicle tracks which showed a vehicle had followed the same route after the wheat had grown and crushed down the same height wheat as stood around, must have been today I thought.

 

Imagine my surprise on entering the formation to find:

 

The lay completely shredded:

 

 

The general formation appeared to be kept and didn't seem to have any missing parts when compared to the aerial shots shown earlier

 

 

Some photos of the damage:

 

 

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In some places the downed crop remain, lay'd but very damaged, squashed and extremely broken stalks.

 

Even at ground level the stems were broken, this I believe a result of the violent destruction of the

crop. Sorry no stem samples taken due to extremely damaged crop. I couldn't find even 1 undamaged bent stalk.

 

With much sadness I left fairly soon after my arrival (didn't fancy bumping into the angry farmer or whoever was responsible for the shredding), you can see the houses in the top of this picture.

 

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and believe there was something here to look at, but alas it has been taken away... with all the shredded plant... nowhere to be seen