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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.

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

Survey record

Reported
1997-08-08
Location
Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire · map
Coordinates
51.363, -1.852 (±800 m)
Crop
wheat
Span
71 m
Symmetry
6-fold, mirror
Elements
99 rendered from 99 declared
Fidelity
level 3 · confidence medium
Digitized
claude-fable-5, 2026-08-20
kochfractalsnowflakemilk-hillwiltshirefamous1990s

Construction

Outer Koch star (iteration 2, circumradius 33 m) rendered as a band by a standing interior copy at 28 m; central flattened Koch snowflake at 13.5 m, same orientation; 96 'lace' circles — one outside each of the 48 outline segments of both stars, sized 2.2 m in the bays down to 0.9 m at the tips (1.1-0.5 m on the inner star).

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