Arcadia Discussion Zone

I still haven't got round to reporting the Huish Hill circle to the Crop Circle Connector Website, but I did go there again today, not specifically because of this, but to walk the Giants Grave - Martinsell Hill escarpment to the east, but my route on the way back took me to within a field's width of the circle I saw on Saturday, so I decided to go in and take a closer look.

The nearer you get to one of these, the less you see - until you're actually in it, that is - but walking downhill towards it, it starts to tilt out of view and merge with the rest of the corn, and by the time I was level with it, I could barely make it out at all. This is approaching it from the foot of Huish Hill to the north.


I'd never been inside one of these before, and I had it to myself. Following the tramlines in, it feels a bit like going into a maze, and once inside, it's somewhat disorientating, because you can't get a sense of the overall design, and feel like you're passing through a series of random shapes on your way to the centre. It's at this stage that you start to appreciate the scale of the formation, with some swathes of flattened corn as wide as roads, cutting their way through the field.


And the lines appear straight and neatly laid out, although the ground there was quite uneven underfoot. It looked difficult to do, with such precision, I have to say.


For a bit of orientation and context, this is looking west from inside the circle. Running right to left along that escarpment are Gopher Wood, Tan Hill, Milk Hill and the Adams Grave Long Barrow, and beneath that high ridge are the other three crop formations that have appeared in recent days, and are referred to further up the thread.


And this is looking north, to Huish Hill.


This is the middle of the circle, from where the spokes of the wheel-like design radiate outwards.


And this tribute of two feathers had been left in the middle. For some reason.

If you knew the pattern of the maze crop circle and you were lost, could you

determine your direction by its design? Some researchers think that the Nazca lines would be able to steer

a wanderer in the right direction. Are the crop circles made to be mazes for us? They certainly give us a lot to

ponder as we walk through them.

Windmill Hill, new formation.

South Hill, new crop formation 2010.

Zoom of the South Hill formation. Is that Hebrew? In the center,

the design looks like a Tree of the Sephiroth as an atomic structure.

Wickham L North crop formation. A young lady was flying over to

view another crop circle and found this one which is one of a pair.

Please tell us when there is a translation. Could it be music?



Diagram of the 2 coded shield formations, are they musical chords?

CCC near Limoges - waiting for Sheila:

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2010/france/Vigen2010a.html

Only a few more days. Time is running out.

Thanks Eginolf....probably a fake, but there's a nice wee video of it here.

http://area51blog.wordpress.com/2010/08 ... -26072010/

Damm', these French .... I should have known better. After all, they're master fakers ...

2 new wonderful thingies in GB though:
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2010/pewseywhitehorse/pewseywhitehorse2010a.html
(Angrily cut off the next day as to be seen under "Groundshots".

&

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2010/horton/horton2010a.html

I believe if you combine the two images and look at the negative you will see a face, not sure of who.

Pewsey White Horse, new formation 2010. This is

an unusual amount of crop formations, isn`t it?

New crop formation, Wiltshire.

Here is the French one at Vigen near Limoges.

"Spinning straw into gold...."

Oh, dear. I finally reported this to the CCC this morning, and had a very pleasant e-mail back, gently pointing out that it was reported on their site on 21st June - we even discussed it here!

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2010 ... e2010.html

I just assumed that it was recent, and so didn't check back further than late July on the CCC website. In fact it's been there for over seven weeks.

Anyway, hopefully the pictures I posted of the inside of it, a few days ago, were of some interest to those among us who enjoy this sort of thing, and it certainly felt exciting at the time that I "discovered" it, but apologies for the breathless exuberance in my reporting of this scoop that wasn't.

I shall now withdraw, in order that I may be at one with my humiliation .........

Hey, never mind Richard...better luck next year, at least you have CC experience at first hand and are now better equipped to spot next year's crop.

Here it is when it was still green, now it`s gold and looks different.

It is very exciting to see the round maze, it gave me the idea that they are all

meant to be walked as mazes - no worries....

As I've said: The formation of the night of August 12th is a special one: (Renne will post these two pictures for us, thx.)

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2010/northdowns/northdowns2010a.html

I see a scarabeus and the sun ... and a path that reaches there.

Can it be any mory egyptian?


p.s.
to all them sceptics: See the 2nd picture (of the link above) and the hill behind.
As you will notice the CCC ALWAYS appear [b]in the same area and fields ... now for about 20 years!!!!!!!!![/b]
And no one got caught!

This is amazing! This is an exceptional year, right?

From another angle.

As another crop circle season draws to a close, at least in the northern hemisphere, Clive Aslet, editor-at-large of Country Life, offers his perspective, in this Telegraph article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/795265 ... rcles.html

... but there's still the "final fanfare" to come.
Soon come.

Meanwhile check here these pictures of 17 seasons of CCCs in the UK. Truly a fabulous image library:

http://www.temporarytemples.co.uk/imagelibrary/2009.html

Great link...thank you Egi

Yes, it's superb, some exquisite photos; thank you indeed.

The link includes the Milk Hill "ball of light" footage from c. 1990. One does need to be very cautious about these sort of films, because some of them have been shown to be faked, but if one reads the testimony that accompanies it, then it does make one wonder a bit.

Having seen five this year - albeit four of them by chance, in that I happened to be on Milk Hill and adjacent escarpments anyway - I'm not sure if it's made me more sceptical or less sceptical. Agnostic but still intrigued, I guess. The ant-like figures of the croppies, sometimes dozens in one formation, as seen from the hillside above, also made for an arresting image.

I hope to be returning to Milk Hill shortly, and I assume the fields containing formations in its vicinity will now have been harvested, as they were in the process of combining the next field over, the last time I was there, a couple of weeks back. But I will be interested to see what, if any, imprint of the formation may be left upon a cut field.

Yet again, in 2010, it's been the region of Wessex in southern England, that has seen the lion's share of these peculiar landscape patterns. For whatever reason (lots of crop fields being one of them, obviously).

Northdowns, Beckhampton - Wiltshire, reported Aug. 13, 2010.

Patrice Chaplin said that this formation is "absolutely splendid!".

Barbury Castle, Wiltshire - June 14, 2009.

This is a Native American design, it is the Thunderbird.