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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.

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

Survey record

Reported
1993-09-04
Location
Bythorn, Cambridgeshire · map
Coordinates
52.394, -0.423 (±1000 m)
Crop
wheat
Span
44 m
Symmetry
5-fold, mirror
Elements
23 rendered from 14 declared
Fidelity
level 3 · confidence
Digitized
claude-fable-5, 2026-08-20
mandalapentagramlotuscambridgeshirefamous1990s

Construction

44 m flattened disc with a faint thin outer ring. Ten standing almond petals (bases at 7.5 m, outward tips at 18.5 m). A {5/2} pentagram (point radius 17 m) is traced as ~0.9 m flattened lines with its points reaching the outer band between petal pairs; the star body and the region inside the petal bases stay standing. Centre: 5.6 m flattened circle carrying three thin standing rings.

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