Crop Circles 2005

2005 was a really intense crop circle season with a veritable confetti storm of formations, many, many iconic crop circles occurred this summer.

The huge 1000 ft formation at Beckhampton was to set the tone, a major formation in barley, so early in the year was quite unprecedented. Thirteen centers of curvature are needed to draw the design: the number of transformation.

It was followed by wonderful formations at West Woods, Lurkeley Hill and Lane End down (the latter in Hampshire), but the July 3 brought an iconic formation to East Field in Alton Barnes, a double square or octagon with a myriad of standing and flattened boxes inside.

Two beautiful circles appeared at Avebury, a hexagonal necklace and a quintuplet of quintuplets, then to top the season two imperious circles one at Wayland's Smithy and one at Woolstone Hill, both on the Wilts-Oxon border.

The Woolstone Hill circle consisted of a central hexagram surrounded by sixteen squared spirals and finally seventy-two feathers contained within a ring measuring approximately 400ft in diameter.