Plate 04 of 11 · cca-1993-bythorn-mandala
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.
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
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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.
Sources
- Lucy Pringle (copyrighted imagery — link only) (photo)
- The Croppie (report)
- en.wikipedia.org (report)