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Brand New Crop Circle — next to and mirroring “Patty”!

Check out the latest crop circle, which seems to be one of the better ones so far this late, late starting season. It mirrors the shape of one of those “3 sisters” beech groves I wrote about in my blog earlier this year, specifically Patty (!).

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2013/hackpenhill/hackpenhill2013a.html

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Compare with here:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/3413/

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/making-a-point/

I’m sure that crop circles have never been beside any of these 3 groves before, armed with knowledge of the archives of this site which contains all known locations of crop circles past and present now.

Red Collie seems to like this one, and I have a feeling he’s going to add some text to his 7/15/13 published picture asap:

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2013/hackpenhill/comments.html

He states it is a reincarnation of a crop circle quickly mowed through by a farmer just over a week before, which also seems unusual.

This beech circle is one of the two twins (or sisters) of “Marge” where a cyclist apparently died, an accident we found out about while visiting it in person during our England trip last month. Another perhaps strange thing: couldn’t find out any details about this accident afterwards despite trying quite a number of google search combinations. Maybe it’s time to try again, and harder.

More as it comes in!

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Wiltshire Trip, Days 01-02

Plane trip into England: not terribly bad but my neck hurt quite a lot. Probably stress a big factor. Reached London about 5pm their time, hopped in car, drove on wrong side of road to Devizes. Not too bad a trip — nervewracking to a degree, of course. But I made it. Stopped in Marlborough for a bit, stopped at The Barge and met Ted as soon as I parked the car, an ex-British Marine who owns a canal boat (aka narrowboat) moored next to the Honeystreet bridge. He gave me a tour of his boat — very nice — met his wife, and then he even bought me a Croppie beer at The Barge. Talked of politics and such. Then crop circles came up, and I put forth my theory about them being part hoaxed, part paranormal in origin, and said most researchers agreed with me, disagreeing more about the percentages of each part. Not sure what Ted made of that statement, but at any rate he begged off a hike to the white horse with me, which was okay by me — not that I didn’t like him, but I was ready for some alone hiking time, some serious alone hiking time. And I got it this week believe me! So my first real hike came when I, impromptu, decided to park the car at the Stanton St. Bernard exit off the main road between Devizes and Honeystreet, and headed almost straight up Milk Hill to the north, the highest peak in all of Wiltshire at just under 1000 feet, I believe. Milk Hill article at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Hill. Exiting a rough hiking trail up, rather skirted the famed Alton Barnes white horse on its side to reach the top, then walked down on very narrow (“C”) road back down to the main highway. Wow, is it beautiful up there — a quick hike, since I needed to get to Devizes certainly before nightfall. So reached Devizes, and Tim was there already. Talked of general stuff and then crop circles; told him about the Barbara Lamb book I wanted to give him (unfortunately never did!). Scouted out downtown afterwards, and had beer in his landlord’s pub (Hare and Hound). 6x draft was my choice, a local brew made by Wadworth Brewery in Devizes itself. Very local, then.

Next day got up *very* early and headed toward Oliver’s Hill and the Devizes White Horse, another in a series of about 9 within Wiltshire County and perhaps the one of most recent design, only dating from the late 1990s. More on Wiltshire white horses here: http://www.wiltshirewhitehorses.org.uk/. I was up and out by about 4:30am I believe — it started to get light during my stay around *3:30*. Amazing. Will miss that. The trail up to the white horse got worse and worse until it just became a line through the weeds and up a hill. Luckily I brought my deluge kit in my daypack (the *amazing* Gregory pack — don’t leave home without it!), ’cause it was raining by the time I reached the horse figure. It’s really amazing at the top of this hill, with a highlight for sure being a small woods called Roundway Hill Covert. Tim later also mentioned the beauty of these woods. Site here: http://www.wiltshire-web.co.uk/oldwildlife/reserves/roundway/roundway.htm. Notable for me was the natural boxwood type plants (they may have been boxwoods themselves) that sprinkled the forest; very un-American seeming. Neck was starting to hurt before reaching Oliver’s Castle, and probably didn’t get to explore to the degree I had hoped for. Worried about neck for rest of trip, but turned out it was fairly okay. Main problem was *parking and driving*. More on that in a moment-o.

Next hike involved Cherhill white horse, after resting at Devizes Costa for a bit. Let me speak of Devizes: I had the idea before staying there that we, B and I, could live in Devizes after retiring, at least for months at a time. Don’t think this is the case now, but let me explain in parts. First, the library was very disappointing. I was expecting an old building full of ancient tomes and manuscripts, and the reality was that it made Blue Mountain’s public library look very good. Computer time for the public was limited, and though no fault of the library, the *keyboard* was a little different in Britain. All this made internet surfing considerably more problematic than I anticipated. A second problem was Costa — I expected an equal to America’s Starbucks, and, sorry Britain, got a flimsy substitute. Lattes weren’t nearly as strong even with extra shots, and they actually sweeten them a bit for some reason. Costa itself was pretty neat as far as stores go, and I had a great location in which to sit and people watch, it being located at a busy walking corner of downtown. Devizes’ downtown, overall, was quite interesting, with three old churches and covering a large area — several alleyways. Got a mocha latte at Costa on day 02, and vowed off sugar thereafter, sensing a cold coming on. Eventually the sugar and stress caught up with me in week 2, when I actually contracted a cold. But during the Devizes part I was okay on that. Had trouble with Tim’s shower in the morning — Britain’s showers are quite different than ours, requiring pulling a chord hung from the ceiling to turn on the hot water, and then adjusting the water temperature on a dial in the tub. And the curtain didn’t pull all the way around. Nowhere to really hang your towel when done. Strange. Back to the big problems: *parking*. I never solved the riddle of parking in Devizes, and ended up, for the last several days there, of parking at a Sports Complex almost a mile from Tim’s apt. One day I even parked at The Barge and walked all the way back to Devizes, a distance of maybe 6 miles, and then trekked back a different route of about 7 miles to The Barge the next morning. But those were some of my favorite hikes, if not my favorites of the trip, at least while I was alone.

The hike up to the Cherhill white horse was amazing as well, especially the earthworks and hill to its south. Later that week I was able to pull off a hike that partially linked this Cherhill horse hike with the Devizes horse hike, taking place around Morgan Hill. More on that in a later post. Should also mention that the oilseed rape field (yellow flowers!) below Cherhill’s horse figure contained a small crop circle, one of the earliest of the very late starting season, and probably man-made. I had actually forgotten it was there when hiking up to the horse figure. The farmer who owns the field didn’t allow access. But — my first spied crop circle! Pretty exciting, and then more would be on their way, or at least 2 more. To the south of Cherhill, one had a fantastic view into what I’ve been calling The Hole on this blog. A picture of it from the soon-to-be-expired Liquor camera can be found in this earlier post.

So now we start with one of the major incidents of our journey: on the way back to The Barge from Cherhill had a *flat tire*! Luckily — *luckily* — I was very near a designated parking lot along the quite narrow road to Honeystreet, or else I would have had to stay in the road to fix the tire, if I could even fix it. Turned out I had a lot of working room in the parking lot, and a man helped me located the thingamajig that enables one to remove the 5th, *safety* nut, which we don’t have in America I don’t believe. It was in the glove compartment, which I probably would have eventually found but the person saved me some time for sure. I had help from quite a number of Brits in this manner — as B. said, they seem to be more helpful over there than us Americans over here. Tried to call B and, to add to my problem, the phone needed recharging, and actually died while I *just* had enough information to locate the place in Marlborough where I needed to take the car and order a new tire. What timing — and that was another leitmotif of the trip. Time seemed different over there, and greater stress and problems strangely juxtaposed with greater joy and synchronicity. So went to Marlborough and ordered the tire, and then I just decided to head to The Barge, small spare tire be damned. Again, a nervewracking time, but once again I’m here to tell the tale and made it back. Even this night I was tempted to park my car there and walk back to Devizes. The next day I decided to do just this. But for this day, I drove back on with the small tire to Devizes. Stopped at Hound and Hare again, attempting to read books each night there.

(continued in Wiltshire Trip, Days 03-04!)

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Updates

Mind perhaps starting to cool down after the heated experience of visiting Wiltshire County England the last 2 weeks of June. Will fit immediate future posts about Wiltshire into broader discussions (like this post!). I believe I’ll have no quarrels about returning to the O_k Barn just outside Marlborough for the next visit. Relatively cheap; very convenient to all locations (Marlborough, Fyfield Down, Avebury, The Barge, West Woods, Savernake, etc.). Will have more to say about the comparison between the O_k Barn and Baker Bloch’s own visit to Wilsthire in 2010, staying at another farm house (Temple Farm). The King and Queen of Temple Farm have some interesting ties to the people who rent the O_k Barn, seemingly.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66525

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/towns/marlboroughheadlines/8367979.New_theft_brings_Marlborough_tree_firm_to_a_halt/

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http://www.marlboroughcollege.org/about-us/college-history/the-mound/

William Morris (educated at Marlborough College):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_from_Nowhere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wood_Beyond_the_World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_at_the_World%27s_End

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Marlborough description from a children’s book author’s blog:

Walking up hills in the rain through history day 4

Wansdyke and Shaw village from same:

Walking uphill through thistles through along the Wansdyke day 5

William Golding (who lived in Marlborough and Wilsthire):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding

William Golding’s friend James Lovelock, best known for his Gaia hypothesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock

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Going Back in Time 02

“There is some secret *sealed* up in the Medieval village of Shaw, Hucka D., deserted since the 15th Century apparently.”

Hucka D.:

The village of Seale, Texas, with its past as Shaw, seals this deal, yeah.

bb:

The Wansdyke is such an important, unifying element to the central Wiltshire landscape. This would be the East Wansdyke according to the wikipedia article on the subject.*

Hucka D.:

You traced a lot of it in your Wiltshire hikes. Good for you!

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bb:

Let’s see, Hucka D., I hiked part of the East Wansdyke, the most preserved section of the 3 identified parts of the Roman ditch, at Morgan Hill, the western terminus of the eastern part. Then I hiked part of the dike around West Woods, following it to the site of the old Medieval village of Shaw, which I plan to return to when heading back to Wiltshire. Will this be 5 years; 10 years? Will have to see how crop circles develop in the meantime, and people’s opinion of them and the development of the psychic state of the world at large. Going to be an interesting 5-10 years for sure! I think Hucka D. has left the scene. So something is sealed at Shaw. I always felt very pleased when hiking this ancient ditch. It runs across the lower edge of The Hole in the heart of crop circle country.**

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* see also the home page for “Wansdyke Project 21”:
http://www.wansdyke21.org.uk/wansdykehomepage.htm

** Additional notes: the huge 2001 Milk Hill mega-glyph is one of the closer crop circle formations ever to appear near the Wandsdyke.

Also from 2001, and 2 weeks before the huge Milk Hill glyph appeared, comes this interesting formation that may be the closest ever to the Wansdyke. This would be in a field just west of the former Shaw village site.

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Another crop circle from the year before (July 16, 2000), w/ seemingly similar design elements and from the same field as the one pictured above, is here:

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http://www.mathildenhoehe.org/index_flash.php

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http://www.forzieri.com/necklaces/masini/mg29474-011-00/?popup=0&promo=platinum&pv=1&type=prodfeed&camp=linkshare_us&source=linkshare

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nepotistcollective/sets/72157616422406563/with/5818710844/

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Going Back in Time…

…To Pick Up Additional Threads…

First:

“Dimensional Kink?”

Notes:

Yes, I did get to pass through this Dimensional Kink while in England. Very successful trip! Unfortunately I didn’t take my camera, because some interesting things were on and in the ground at that point (stone structures, perhaps a bridge at one spot), with more to explore. It’s a void between the communities of All Cannings (east) and Coate (west), passed through after I parked my car at The Barge, deciding to hike all the way to Devizes on Tue night, a distance of about 7 miles. For the evening walk, arriving in Devizes only a bit before dark (close!), I decided that I simply had to try passing through this time/space Kink written about just prior to the flight in, even though I knew it was risky. This might have been, in fact, my greatest risk taking during the trip. Or was it the least risk taking activity — dunno. This is not The Hole I’ve written so much about lately mysteriously forming in the center of heated crop circle activity swirling all around, but a kind of second, considerably less defined hole appearing not far south. I say that risk taking may *not* have been involved because obviously the alien type crop circle makers have also been ignoring this place as well; less chance of being beamed up like Scotty, you see. What did I see inside? Again I don’t have the photos, but my guess is the remains of ancient stuff poking through. When I go back to Wiltshire (5 yrs? 10 yrs?) I’ll make a considerable attempt to return to this place. In being a void between population places, it is somewhat akin to the Synching Creek Designated Mystery Area, I guess. Interesting that Pooh appeared in the All Cannings church after showing up in Whitehead Crossing with his wagon full of honey the week before. 4 Sticks missed him, though, but received the gift of honey.

Just to complete: The next morning (Wed) had to head back to The Barge, of course, to retrieve my car. Went back soley on the Kennet and Avon Canal this time — amazing trip; took about 4 hours at a relatively slow pace, and the weather was pitch perfect. Arrived at The Barge early afternoon and rewarded myself with a vegetarian lasagna lunch, which I purchased a number of times over the 2 week trip. Unfortunately, blisters began to appear on my little toes after the hike, probably because my shoes, although comfortable, were relatively new. These would be my most waterproof shoes, however, and the ones I wore most in England.

Second:

First, Hucka Doobie wants to ask some questions. Hucka, take it away…

Hucka D.:

Welcome to the Baker Bloch Blog, baker b.! I have some additional questions about the Dimensional Kink? post. Don’t you think this is SID’s 1st Oz. The hike, I mean?

bb:

I’m not sure.

Hucka D.:

The dimensional kink, or, sorry Dimensional Kink is like the kink in the line of Bodysong within SID. Sorry, again: Music from the Body. Can you pull up a diagram and I’ll demonstrate.

bb:

I think so. Hold on a minute, though…

http://rainbowology.net/sid/bookernew12.html

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There it is Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Yes, I’m convinced the hike is like the journey through SID’s 1st Oz front to back, in turns of this one album (Music From The Body). You’re lucky you made it through the kink, just like you’re lucky you made it through SID’s 1st Oz’s kink. I was there to help. Pooh.

bb:

Well, there was a lot of pooh in the kink for sure, Hucka (!)

Hucka D.:

The cows had never seen anyone hike through their field, in truth. Knee deep was the grass, ankle deep was the pooh. Next time you will take a bear in there.

bb:

Now the… sorry.

Hucka D.:

Now the body of water you hiked down from Devizes to Honeystreet the next day would be the necessary body of water in the equation. Without this single channel or *canal* of water, you would not have been able to effect the first hike, see?

bb:

Yeah, I kinda see that, Hucka D. Because I would not have been able to pass through the Dimensional Kink. The canal smoothed out the kink, somehow.

Hucka D.:

Yes it did. And that’s why I showed up today. To tell you that.

bb:

What would have happened if I hadn’t hiked down the canal from Devizes to Honeystreet the next day?

Hucka D.;

The 2 hikes acted as one in hypertime. One does not exist, then, without the other. You would not effected the first without understanding the second would follow the next day. (pause)

bb:

This collage (Lis 06) might be symbolic of the 2 hikes, then, Hucka. The turning of the moon shaped thingie occurs perpendicular to the direction of the hikes (north to south instead of east-west), but the rock with the triangle shaped crop circle image represents The Barge, the beginning and end point of the hikes respectively. And the tombstone, then, represents the kink, the dimensional kink.

Hucka D.:

But it… yes, you go…

bb:

But it could also represent *Devizes* in the center between the *two* Barges, one beginning and one ending. The tombstone, after all, comes from Devizes (St. James’ church) from the collage just before this one (Lis 05). The gargoyle being hugged, which is the same as Bart Simpson, would be my accoster, then.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Yes.

bb:

The Dimensional Kink is about as far away as you can get from a population center in these neck of the woods. The accosting came about as *close* as you can to a population center, occurring near the middle of Devizes.

Hucka D.:

All this (collages, from early this year) was preparation for that (Devizes experiences, including the accosting).

bb:

Perhaps strange that that particular rock with a crop circle image wasn’t in The Barge any longer, although I have proof of its existence there through a pic from this post. Lemme dig that up quickly…

Hucka D.:

Go ahead. But… yes.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/honey/

bb:

The picture comes from this flickr page…
Crop circle stone carving at The Barge Inn, Honey Street, Wiltshire
… taken on June 6, 2007, or over 6 years ago now. They probably have the rock somewhere in the back still, then, in a storage room or sumtin.

Hucka D.:

It is a Rockley rock. It is archetypal. (pause) All these things were set up so that the accosting would be minimized. He would simply say “silly man” and brush you aside. He was a tank, a brute. But at that point in time he softened. He became not Bart alone but Bart with a caring and more advanced feminine side — sister Lisa. And you received a vegetarian lasagna to remind you of this.

bb:

The rock is signed PRS, and dated 2005.

Hucka D.:

Rockley.

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Hole Circle: New Information

corn502http://www.greatdreams.com/Events/9_11_01/Amertrg2.htm

I saw the photograph of this formation on September 15, 2001. I wrote some numbers in my files concerning it, but did not post it.

5313 Formation All Cannings Down, Wiltshire 28 Aug
http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/cgi-bin/CCdb2?d=uk01dv

5313 Formation Tanhill Penning, nr Allington Down, Wiltshire 28th August
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2001/TanhillPenning/TanhillPenning2001a.html

This is a paste from my notes:

This has 5 circles in a thought bubble pattern. Below that is three circles, a larger one slightly above two smaller. Below and to the right side is a single circle. Below and to the right of that is three small circles in a line. This may suggest 5, 3, 1, 3 or the reverse, 3, 1, 3, 5.

5313 + 3135 = 8448
8448 / 1.6 = 5280 (a mile in feet)
8448 / 11 = 768
24 x 32 = 768
768 x 3 = 2304 (Gematrian)

Tanhill, I believe, was the location of the Mega-Glyph.

I placed a post on Paul Vigay’s site this morning, October 5, 2001

(end of addition)

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As determinable by the below photos, the 2001 Milk Hill crop circle (1st photo) lies closer to the Hole Circle as a whole than the 2005 Milk Hill circle from the same field (2nd photo):

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Bizarre thread…

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https://www.facebook.com/notes/zeta-forest/andrew-pyrka/211747948835883

Why does Forest Home, AL come up on page 2 of a google search for “Zeta Forest”??

Colin Andrews on the “corrupt” wikipedia article re crop circles:

http://www.colinandrews.net/Crop_Circle_Research.html

Check interesting video here at 0:50 for same circle mentioned in several posts below (Milk Hill “lid” circle):

http://www.colinandrews.net/Crop_Circle_Research.html

Bizzare former link between Bill Mtn. “aliens” and their “Forest Home” w/ Savernake:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/chat/

I’m drawing a green and upside down triangle and making a conclusion.

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Diamond Too 02

Compare 4:05 – 5:30 in the above video to this, taken directly from the Diamond Too (01) post.

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2013/Stantonstbernard2/comments.html

At Stanton St. Bernard on June 21, 2013, we saw a very clever field image which resembles a “reel of magnetic tape”:

Six angular numbers were coded into that “tape” in the order 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 9 when reading inward from the outside. This scheme of coding is almost the same as that used at Barbury Castle on June 1, 2008 (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk), except now each angle of the spiral codes for a number using the formula n x 50o instead of n x 36o.

Now as a direct continuation in the video (5:30 – 7:30), Barbara Lamb then describes a second, wonderful formation from 2008 that, as it also happens, has been recently mentioned in this blog here in connection with Herman’s Mansion of his namesake park…

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/figure-8-again/

… and will also be discussed (text pending) in relation to one of the Avebury stones I took a particular shining to week before last, which appears to have an “8” (=- 8 ball?) and also the small letter “c” (= cue ball?) adorning its top…

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/final-liquor-shots-01/

*Then* we continue in the video to find Ms. Lamb then describing a goddess formation (think: Egyptian statuette again) with keywords “circle” and “Earth” mentioned. This is from 7:30 – 8:25 in the video linked at the top of this post.

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The 8-8-8 crop circle Barbara mentions also formed very close to the Turing/Univ. of Manchester related crop circle from this year — within yards in the same field — and the central shaft of the latter also seems to point to the central area (quintuplet core) of the former.

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The goddess crop circle formed very near The Barge as well, to the east this time.

Just to complete, Lamb talks about 2 more crop circles she visited during the 2008 season (8:25 – 11:47) before the moderator shifts discussion to her recently published book entitled “Alien Experiences”.

(continued in Diamond Too 03?)
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/bizarre-thread/

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Diamond Too

The last Frank/Herman Park related post of this blog was created June 10, where I discussed further ramifications of finding a diamond shaped rock at Whitehead Crossing. All posts beyond this, up until (and including) this one, have instead dwelt on Wiltshire, England, where I spent the last 2 weeks of June. Amazing! But back to the point.

The last Frank/Herman Park related post I mentioned:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/diamond-beach-arkansas-beach-etc/

On June 9th, perhaps when I was preparing this last F/H post, a diamond shaped crop circle formed in a field just below the famous Alton Barnes white horse. Only today have I looked up more info on the crop circle, because on the surface, it looks quite manmade and artificial — an amateur effort, one could say. But maybe not. In contrast, the diamond shaped rock I found at Whitehead Crossing the week before was very regular and delineated. It was a true diamond, very similar to the one in the midst of the Arkansas flag I also reproduce in that 6/10 blog post.

But something else has come up in the meantime. The same field that gave us the diamond crop circle of 6/9 also produced, during my stay in England, another crop circle, which has some more surface oddities attached to it. This is the circle I’m talking about, which is a true circle on the perimeter. I was probably one of the first half dozen to dozen people to see this crop circle, which later morphed into a phase 2 (a certain percentage of crop circles have additional phases like this). Red Collie, who I’ve learned to trust to a large degree in discussions of crop circle meanings, has this to say about it:

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2013/Stantonstbernard2/comments.html

At Stanton St. Bernard on June 21, 2013, we saw a very clever field image which resembles a “reel of magnetic tape”:

Six angular numbers were coded into that “tape” in the order 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 9 when reading inward from the outside. This scheme of coding is almost the same as that used at Barbury Castle on June 1, 2008 (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk), except now each angle of the spiral codes for a number using the formula n x 50o instead of n x 36o.

In light of the diamond crop circle – Whitehead Crossing diamond rock synchronicity mentioned above, I took a closer look at the articles and comments for the 6/21 circle occurring in the same field. At the end of the articles page is a broken English article pointing out a connection with a mysterious spinning statuette in the Manchester Museum, only a stone’s throw from the Alan Turing Building Red Collie mentions in his comments. The Alan Turing (connect to “turning”?) tour (“turn”?) Collie also mentions took place on June 18, 2013. The second statuette turning related post from Manchester Museum personnel comes from 6/20, where the time lapse video is introduced.

The mystery of the spinning statuette (II)

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About Egypt at the Manchester Museum

About Egypt at the Manchester Museum

The Manchester Museum houses over 16,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan, making one of the largest collections in Britain and one with world-class holdings in a number of areas.

The mystery of the spinning statuette

When I first noticed that one of our Middle Kingdom statuettes (Acc. no. 9325) had been turned around 180 degrees to face the back of its case in our new Ancient Worlds galleries, I wondered who had changed the object’s position this without telling me. The Egyptians themselves would have appreciated the concern to make visible for passers-by the text on its back pillar – a prayer for offerings for the deceased.

What is very strange is that the statue has spun in a perfect circle – it hasn’t wobbled off in any particular direction.

http://thesaurus.com/browse/coffer

Main Entry:
coffer  [kaw-fer, kof-er] Show IPA
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large box
Synonyms: case, casket, chest, exchequer, repository, strongbox, treasure chest, treasury, war chest

(continued in Diamond Too 02)

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Final Liquor Shots, 02

We shift to the country for our final round of Liquor shots, beginning with the All Saints Church at Alton Priors, near the famous Alton Barnes white horse and also The Barge, the traditional hub of all crop circle gossip. In the picture I was trying to emulate the angle of that used in the Lis 08 collage. Compare with here.

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Sarsen stones in a field just east of the church. There are two trap doors within the church itself, one containing a sarsen stone with a prominent “eye”, and the other only cement. I provide pictures of these here.

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Closeup of one of the field sarsen stones.

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The only shot I took of the very peculiar brass plaque within the church, basis for yet another Lis collage: Lis 09, the final in the series. Much better photos of the shrine (i.e, not taken through a window) are found here.

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Adam’s Grave taken near a path crossing near All Saints. I like this shot quite a bit.

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Pool table within The Barge. The crop circle depicted had already been brought up in this blog before my trip to England in a post called “The Hole, Other Considerations” from June 14th. Like the very recent 6/21/13 crop circle I was able to first view from the very same Adam’s Grave seen in the photo above, this particular crop circle, described in Michael Glickman’s blog as a “lid”, is one of those more uncommon two parters, and also occurred in the very same field as the 6/21/13 creation. During one of my many visits to The Barge, I watched as a pub regular named Mad Pete reinforced the outline of this crop circle design with a felt pen. Mad Pete has a whole wall devoted to his eclectic photography just the other side of the bar. Home page of The Barge is here.

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In 1997, an artist named Vince Palmer created the amazing ceiling mural in the side room containing the pool table, which he apparently also touches up now and then according to The Barge Inn main page. Below is pictured a small section of the work, showing a UFO (?) hovering above the Avebury rock circle.

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The very same crop circle design seen on the pool table is also used in an article about the subject, pinned to the wall of the pool room. I’ll have to look up more information about the “Fields of Gold” article soon, and I want to bring up that Milk Hill lid formation again in that and probably other contexts. Is it the symbolic lid to The Hole?

Interesting:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2020910/Crop-circles-Now-ET-little-help-mircowaves-GPS.html

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Compare the “lid” crop circle with the Croppie beer logo, a local brew created by Honeystreet Ales.

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And now what might be the final Liquor shot posted to any of my blogs… sigh! This is another article on the wall of The Barge’s pool room or ceiling mural room if you will, a quite disparaging one concerning rock star Reg Presley, lead singer of The Troggs, who was a frequent visitor to The Barge and who championed an alien source for crop circles. Presley died in February of this year from lung cancer at the age of 71. A better article should be pinned to the wall to honor him.*

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* How about this one:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/wild-things-down-in-the-cornfields-reg-presley-thinks-that-somebody-out-there-is-trying-to-tell-us-something-martin-whittaker-meets-the-trogg-turned-cropwatcher-1422340.html

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