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Created 22 June 2012

Hello My name is Steve And I am looking for pre 1970s crop circle photographs. If you spot any could you let me know, thank you.

steve.pyrah
Saturday 16th of August 2014 01:17:06 AM

Brian Wilkinson
Friday 29th of November 2013 01:01:26 PM
Very close to the circular feature in EPW038821, near Wennington Hall School, Lancashire. I can't see this on Google Maps (though the feature in EPW038821 is visible) and cannot find any reference.

David Parry
Sunday 10th of March 2013 09:44:33 PM
Wennington, Lancashire. As added by Rebecca, now with the photo linked. I'm not sure of the extent of the grounds of Wennington Hall School, but this feature is probably within them.

David Parry
Sunday 10th of March 2013 07:07:12 PM
It seems to be shown on the 6 inch First Edition OS map - only looking online at low resolution as I write, but there is a circle enclosing trees and possibly another symbol - will need to look at a clearer version of the map.

David Parry
Sunday 10th of March 2013 07:07:12 PM
EPW038356 and EPW038355 (not sure how to link to the photos) are of some sort of archaeological crop/soil mark

Rebecca
Sunday 10th of March 2013 05:36:51 PM
Hi Rebecca - when you come across a photo you want to add to a group, you will see a -select group- menu just below the image with a choice of locations to "Add to".

David Parry
Sunday 10th of March 2013 05:36:51 PM
Possible archaeological crop marks on this as yet unlocated photo. Already put forward by "Rebecca", but without the image included.

David Parry
Sunday 10th of March 2013 05:32:46 PM
A multivallate Iron Age hillfort, oval in plan, measuring 580 metres east-west by 460 metres north-south. The earthworks are well preserved and comprise two banks and a medial ditch with two entrances, one on the eastern side which is approached by a causeway and one on the west side which is thought to be medieval in origin.

http://bit.ly/O3m9dC

Brian Wilkinson
Sunday 10th of March 2013 03:14:55 PM
That's where I fly from. Have hundreds of images since 2006. We took off in deep snow in 2009 - here's an image.

Voyeur
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 07:42:35 PM
@Voyeur - that's a great image, and I bet on such a snowy day you were glad of an enclosed cockpit!

Brian Wilkinson
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 05:01:21 PM
While working for Wessex Archaeology several years ago, I excavated two sections through the Roman road between Silchester and Old Sarum, just beyond the roundabout on The Protway (top centre of this photo). Part of an evaluation (the backfilled trenches of which are still visible on the Google maps aerial view), we identified the remnants of the road makeup which had survived ploughing and a shallow depth of the roadside ditches.

David Parry
Sunday 10th of March 2013 03:14:55 PM
EPW038822 is a nice barrow - walled kitchen garden in the background.

Rebecca
Monday 14th of January 2013 04:07:07 PM
EPW038821 and EPW038823 are of the same site - some sort of circular earthwork bisected by another earthwork, with on one side ?ridge and furrow surrounding but respecting it.

Rebecca
Monday 14th of January 2013 04:06:37 PM
The site of a Neolithic ovoid causewayed enclosure on Bury Hill.



http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=393256

BruceR
Friday 14th of December 2012 01:21:05 PM
Beeston Castle



now run by English Heritage. There are a couple of hills on the plain that command the whole area. Beeston Castle is on one and Peckforton Castle is on the other.



http://goo.gl/rRfUT

BruceR
Wednesday 5th of December 2012 09:53:05 PM
The Rickle and Cormorant Island in Linlithgow Loch are two artificial islands or Crannogs.

Brian Wilkinson
Tuesday 31st of July 2012 11:33:52 AM
Tredegar Fort has a roughly pentagonal inner enclosure approximately 142m from north-east to south-west by 70 to 112m, defined by a bank, ditch and counterscarp.

http://bit.ly/LaHJp2

Brian Wilkinson
Friday 22nd of June 2012 12:14:52 PM
Dunadd: This Dark Age fortress stands on top of an isolated hill, once protected on nearly all sides by marshy ground. It is thought to have been the capital of the Scottish kingdom at Dalriada, founded by colonists from Ireland about A D 500.

http://bit.ly/Mo9IDC

Brian Wilkinson
Friday 22nd of June 2012 12:07:55 PM