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The circle is in a field joining the Lion’s mount by the South of the mount. To access the circle and respect the crop, the easiest way is to go to the South of the field, when you exactly face the lion (almost exactly 0° North !) there is passage across the crop. Please refer to the 2 first pictures. Those who don’t travel with a compass could find it by aligning the lion with the tree ending the edge fencing the property where the mount is located. LOCATION and DATE
The circle is located on the battlefield of the Waterloo. The place has seen a fierce battle that has ended the Napoleonic era. Sources mention that 49.000 soldiers lost their live during that battle. The main battle was fought at Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Preliminary battles had been fought in the surroundings in the previous days. The circle was reported on June 17. It is noticeable that every year many persons come to Waterloo for celebrating this battle and there have certainly been many persons around when the circle appeared. This is provided for information only. VIEW FROM THE MOUNT
Access to the mount only costs 2.5 EUR. Mount is rather steep – 45 m high; Pattern looks well balanced as on photos already displayed. Tourist visiting the battlefield of Waterloo were either not considering the glyph or were laughing about the aliens. Several children did mention these were looking like symbols. VISITING THE CIRCLE
We entered the crop by the South. If there is a real harmony in its pattern when seen from above, the impression inside is messier. This impression could be linked to 2 factors: number of visitors and growth of crop. - It looks like if many persons had already been visiting it. This is surprising sine the path allowing access to the circles tends to deny this. - Stalks were not horizontal and appearing as a mattress, it was already raising to the sun. Crop is very green (perhaps in full growth phases) and is far for being ready for harvest. The crop was discovered on Jun 17th – 7 days before our visit.
We tried to find burns but we are not too sure whether what we had seen were actual burns or marks of the plant rotting where it had suffer from having been bent. On some pictures, my fingers indicate some of these ‘burns’. My original pictures are about 3 mb: I could relay some to those who are interested. At the junction between different curves the layers coming from the different curves were one on top of the other but damaged by preceding visitors. Curves are very nicely drawn. In the middle of the main circles, grouped stalks were still standing vertically.
QUESTION I forgot to take a measure and would appreciate if someone visiting the crop could provide it to me: what is the precise orientation of the circles? It looks roughly being 110° (290° in the other direction). |
