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A field survey in vectors · 1990–2008

The field is a canvas.
We digitized the masterpieces.

Every famous crop formation here was rebuilt as precise parametric geometry — measured circles, arcs and polygons, not photographs. Each plate below is drawn live from its data record.

11formations
1,195elements rendered
8seasons, 1990–2008
409circles in the largest plate

The plates

Alton Barnes double pictogram — 1990-07-12 (cca-1990-alton-barnes-pictogram) The ~134 m double pictogram that ignited the modern crop circle era: two ringed-circle-and-bar groups on one axis, hung with side devices — a three-tined rake, hooked legs, tick-bars and a three-fingered hand — trailing off into ever-smaller circles. Featured on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Remasters. Location: East Field, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.357, -1.838). Reported 1990-07-12. Original imagery: https://lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1990/uk1990bi.shtml (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Alton Barnes double pictogram cca-1990-alton-barnes-pictogram Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 The ~134 m double pictogram that ignited the modern crop circle era: two ringed-circle-and-bar groups on one axis, hung with side devices — a three-tined rake, hooked legs, tick-bars and a three-fingered hand — trailing off into ever-smaller circles. Featured on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Remasters. East Field, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.357, -1.838) — formation reported 1990-07-12 https://lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1990/uk1990bi.shtml https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Alton Barnes double pictogram · 1990-07-12 · East Field, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB cca-1990-alton-barnes-pictogram · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 01 · 1990Alton Barnes double pictogramEast Field, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire Barbury Castle tetrahedron — 1991-07-17 (cca-1991-barbury-castle-tetrahedron) An equilateral triangle whose sides cross the hub's broad outer ring at six points, with spokes to a ringed centre and three deliberately different corner devices: a simple ring, a broken ratchet spiral, and a disc cut by six curved vanes. Widely read at the time as a two-dimensional projection of a tetrahedron. Location: Barbury Castle, Wroughton, Wiltshire, GB (51.488, -1.777). Reported 1991-07-17. Original imagery: https://thecroppie.com/2025/11/01/three-circles-1991/ (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Barbury Castle tetrahedron cca-1991-barbury-castle-tetrahedron Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 An equilateral triangle whose sides cross the hub's broad outer ring at six points, with spokes to a ringed centre and three deliberately different corner devices: a simple ring, a broken ratchet spiral, and a disc cut by six curved vanes. Widely read at the time as a two-dimensional projection of a tetrahedron. Barbury Castle, Wroughton, Wiltshire, GB (51.488, -1.777) — formation reported 1991-07-17 https://thecroppie.com/2025/11/01/three-circles-1991/ https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Barbury Castle tetrahedron · 1991-07-17 · Barbury Castle, Wroughton, Wiltshire, GB cca-1991-barbury-castle-tetrahedron · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 02 · 1991Barbury Castle tetrahedronBarbury Castle, Wroughton, Wiltshire Ickleton Mandelbrot — 1991-08-12 (cca-1991-ickleton-mandelbrot) A faithful Mandelbrot set laid in a Cambridgeshire wheat field: main cardioid, period-2 bulb, both period-3 bulbs, a period-4 bulb and the spike antenna — appearing while the fractal was still a fresh pop-science icon. Location: Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, GB (52.073, 0.176). Reported 1991-08-12. Original imagery: https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/177576/view/crop-formation-in-form-of-mandelbrot-set (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Ickleton Mandelbrot cca-1991-ickleton-mandelbrot Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 A faithful Mandelbrot set laid in a Cambridgeshire wheat field: main cardioid, period-2 bulb, both period-3 bulbs, a period-4 bulb and the spike antenna — appearing while the fractal was still a fresh pop-science icon. Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, GB (52.073, 0.176) — formation reported 1991-08-12 https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/177576/view/crop-formation-in-form-of-mandelbrot-set https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Ickleton Mandelbrot · 1991-08-12 · Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, GB cca-1991-ickleton-mandelbrot · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 03 · 1991Ickleton MandelbrotIckleton, Cambridgeshire Bythorn Mandala — 1993-09-04 (cca-1993-bythorn-mandala) A lotus mandala some 44 m across: ten standing petals with outward tips ring a pentagram traced in thin flattened lines, around a centre of three concentric rings, all on one flattened disc with a faint outer ring. Location: Bythorn, Cambridgeshire, GB (52.394, -0.423). Reported 1993-09-04. Original imagery: https://lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1993/uk1993de.shtml (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Bythorn Mandala cca-1993-bythorn-mandala Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 A lotus mandala some 44 m across: ten standing petals with outward tips ring a pentagram traced in thin flattened lines, around a centre of three concentric rings, all on one flattened disc with a faint outer ring. Bythorn, Cambridgeshire, GB (52.394, -0.423) — formation reported 1993-09-04 https://lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1993/uk1993de.shtml https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Bythorn Mandala · 1993-09-04 · Bythorn, Cambridgeshire, GB cca-1993-bythorn-mandala · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 04 · 1993Bythorn MandalaBythorn, Cambridgeshire Stonehenge Julia Set — 1996-07-07 (cca-1996-stonehenge-julia-set) A 150 m Julia-set seahorse in the field opposite Stonehenge — a crescent spine of great circles fringed with smaller ones, its tail curling away into dots; reportedly appearing in daylight within about 45 minutes on a busy July afternoon. Every circle here is individually digitized from the aerial record. Location: opposite Stonehenge, A303, Wiltshire, GB (51.178, -1.831). Reported 1996-07-07. Original imagery: https://www.cropcircleconnector.com/Bert/juliaset96.html (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Stonehenge Julia Set cca-1996-stonehenge-julia-set Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 A 150 m Julia-set seahorse in the field opposite Stonehenge — a crescent spine of great circles fringed with smaller ones, its tail curling away into dots; reportedly appearing in daylight within about 45 minutes on a busy July afternoon. Every circle here is individually digitized from the aerial record. opposite Stonehenge, A303, Wiltshire, GB (51.178, -1.831) — formation reported 1996-07-07 https://www.cropcircleconnector.com/Bert/juliaset96.html https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Stonehenge Julia Set · 1996-07-07 · opposite Stonehenge, A303, Wiltshire, GB cca-1996-stonehenge-julia-set · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 05 · 1996Stonehenge Julia Setopposite Stonehenge, A303, Wiltshire Windmill Hill Triple Julia — 1996-07-29 (cca-1996-windmill-hill-triple-julia) Three Julia-type spiral arms of diminishing circles in exact three-fold rotational symmetry: about 194 circles spanning roughly 270 m across Windmill Hill near Avebury. Location: Windmill Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire, GB (51.442, -1.887). Reported 1996-07-29. Original imagery: https://www.cropcircleconnector.com/Sorensen/classics/classics.html (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Windmill Hill Triple Julia cca-1996-windmill-hill-triple-julia Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 Three Julia-type spiral arms of diminishing circles in exact three-fold rotational symmetry: about 194 circles spanning roughly 270 m across Windmill Hill near Avebury. Windmill Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire, GB (51.442, -1.887) — formation reported 1996-07-29 https://www.cropcircleconnector.com/Sorensen/classics/classics.html https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Windmill Hill Triple Julia · 1996-07-29 · Windmill Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire, GB cca-1996-windmill-hill-triple-julia · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 06 · 1996Windmill Hill Triple JuliaWindmill Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire Barbury Castle Tree of Life — 1997-05-06 (cca-1997-barbury-castle-tree-of-life) The Kabbalistic Tree of Life: ten ringed sephirot with standing centres joined by all 22 traditional paths, laid in oilseed rape on Burderop Down below Barbury Castle. Location: Burderop Down, nr Barbury Castle, Wiltshire, GB (51.492, -1.756). Reported 1997-05-06. Original imagery: https://lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1997/uk1997ae.shtml (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Barbury Castle Tree of Life cca-1997-barbury-castle-tree-of-life Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 The Kabbalistic Tree of Life: ten ringed sephirot with standing centres joined by all 22 traditional paths, laid in oilseed rape on Burderop Down below Barbury Castle. Burderop Down, nr Barbury Castle, Wiltshire, GB (51.492, -1.756) — formation reported 1997-05-06 https://lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1997/uk1997ae.shtml https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Barbury Castle Tree of Life · 1997-05-06 · Burderop Down, nr Barbury Castle, Wiltshire, GB cca-1997-barbury-castle-tree-of-life · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 07 · 1997Barbury Castle Tree of LifeBurderop Down, nr Barbury Castle, Wiltshire Milk Hill Koch snowflake — 1997-08-08 (cca-1997-milk-hill-koch-snowflake) A double Koch fractal about 71 m across — an outer second-iteration Koch star laid as a band around a standing interior, a matching snowflake at the centre, and nearly a hundred 'lace' circles strung around both outlines, largest in the bays and dwindling toward the tips. Location: Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.363, -1.852). Reported 1997-08-08. Original imagery: https://www.lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1997/uk1997cm.shtml (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Milk Hill Koch snowflake cca-1997-milk-hill-koch-snowflake Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 A double Koch fractal about 71 m across — an outer second-iteration Koch star laid as a band around a standing interior, a matching snowflake at the centre, and nearly a hundred 'lace' circles strung around both outlines, largest in the bays and dwindling toward the tips. Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.363, -1.852) — formation reported 1997-08-08 https://www.lucypringle.co.uk/photos/1997/uk1997cm.shtml https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Milk Hill Koch snowflake · 1997-08-08 · Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB cca-1997-milk-hill-koch-snowflake · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 08 · 1997Milk Hill Koch snowflakeMilk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire Woodborough Hill sunflower — 2000-08-13 (cca-2000-woodborough-sunflower) A 70 m sunflower head on Woodborough Hill: 14 rings of 44 curved triangles laid checkerboard-fashion, each row shifted one ray, so the standing and flattened cells weave two counter-rotating spiral families around a flattened centre disc, all inside a plain flattened rim. Location: Woodborough Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.352, -1.822). Reported 2000-08-13. Original imagery: https://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2000/woodborough/woodborough2000a.html (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Woodborough Hill sunflower cca-2000-woodborough-sunflower Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 A 70 m sunflower head on Woodborough Hill: 14 rings of 44 curved triangles laid checkerboard-fashion, each row shifted one ray, so the standing and flattened cells weave two counter-rotating spiral families around a flattened centre disc, all inside a plain flattened rim. Woodborough Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.352, -1.822) — formation reported 2000-08-13 https://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2000/woodborough/woodborough2000a.html https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Woodborough Hill sunflower · 2000-08-13 · Woodborough Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB cca-2000-woodborough-sunflower · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 09 · 2000Woodborough Hill sunflowerWoodborough Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire Milk Hill 'Galaxy' formation — 2001-08-12 (cca-2001-milk-hill-galaxy) The largest formation on record: 409 circles spanning some 900 feet across four acres of Milk Hill wheat, found after a night of wind and rain. Six spiral spokes of growing circles each end in a giant, and diminishing chains link the giants into a closed outer rim — 79 major circles dressed with hundreds of satellites. Location: Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.3623, -1.8532). Reported 2001-08-12. Original imagery: https://www.cropcirclearchives.co.uk/archives/2001/MilkHill2/milkhill2001a.html (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Milk Hill 'Galaxy' formation cca-2001-milk-hill-galaxy Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 The largest formation on record: 409 circles spanning some 900 feet across four acres of Milk Hill wheat, found after a night of wind and rain. Six spiral spokes of growing circles each end in a giant, and diminishing chains link the giants into a closed outer rim — 79 major circles dressed with hundreds of satellites. Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.3623, -1.8532) — formation reported 2001-08-12 https://www.cropcirclearchives.co.uk/archives/2001/MilkHill2/milkhill2001a.html https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Milk Hill 'Galaxy' formation · 2001-08-12 · Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB cca-2001-milk-hill-galaxy · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 10 · 2001Milk Hill 'Galaxy' formationMilk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire Barbury Castle 'Pi' formation — 2008-06-01 (cca-2008-barbury-castle-pi) A thin ratchet path spiralling out through four full turns, encoding the first ten digits of pi: each digit swept as an arc of digit × 36 degrees before stepping outward at a decagon ray. A small circle marks the decimal point, three diminishing outlined circles read '…', and a wide dike ring frames the 46 m design. Location: Barbury Castle, Wroughton, Wiltshire, GB (51.4885, -1.7746). Reported 2008-06-01. Original imagery: https://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/barburycastle/barburycastle2008a.html (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Barbury Castle 'Pi' formation cca-2008-barbury-castle-pi Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 A thin ratchet path spiralling out through four full turns, encoding the first ten digits of pi: each digit swept as an arc of digit × 36 degrees before stepping outward at a decagon ray. A small circle marks the decimal point, three diminishing outlined circles read '…', and a wide dike ring frames the 46 m design. Barbury Castle, Wroughton, Wiltshire, GB (51.4885, -1.7746) — formation reported 2008-06-01 https://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/barburycastle/barburycastle2008a.html https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Barbury Castle 'Pi' formation · 2008-06-01 · Barbury Castle, Wroughton, Wiltshire, GB cca-2008-barbury-castle-pi · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 Nº 11 · 2008Barbury Castle 'Pi' formationBarbury Castle, Wroughton, Wiltshire

Open data

Every plate regenerates from a machine-readable JSON record — location, dates, sources, and full geometry in metres. The records are free under CC BY-SA 4.0; the referenced aerial photographs remain their photographers'. Researchers, artists and LLMs welcome. The GitHub repository link will appear here at launch.