Yarnbury Castle, nr Winterbourne Stoke. Wiltshire.

Reported 16 - 05 - 10

Comments from Julie O Brien

Whilst looking for the reported formation at yarnbury castle, we came upon the small circle at the other end off the field. All laid crop flowed in an anti-clockwise direction and had a circumference of 80 paces. The plants were laying gently atop each other and although it was scorchingly hot, they were glowing with life. At ground level plants were gently bent over, laying next to others that were snapped,My pictures tell their own story, (Lower Set). These plants are thick, tall and heavy, and its difficult to even walk amongst them without causing some serious disturbance. !n the centre of the formation there was another circle, this time flowing clockwise, and finished beautifully with a small raised nest. In my humble opinion this circle had not been walked on previous to our arrival, and isn't the snapping of some stems bound to happen with the sheer weight of so many plants changing direction simultaneously? could this maybe explain why two plants standing so close together reacted so differentiable one took the weight so then the other didn't have to? How i wish we had found the other circle in the same field.

Report by Julie O Brien © 2010

Photos by Andrew Pyrka © 2010