Blackmore Vale Magazin, By
TraceyR, August 13, 2016
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| The crop circle which has appeared at Ansty |
A crop
circle described by some experienced "croppies" as the best they've
ever seen has appeared in the former "maize maze" field at Ansty Farm
Shop on the A30, six miles east of Shaftesbury.
Ansty Farm
Shop's Karren Price said her family never goes on holiday, but on returning
from a five day break in Devon yesterday, they woke up this morning to discover
a giant pattern in the wheat. It's 100m in diameter and covers around 2 acres.
20 symbols that resemble astrological signs surround a central mandala. A
Facebook user called "Red Collie Returns" has described it as "A
triquetra superimposed on a Flower of Life".
Ansty is 19
miles south west of Stonehenge, an area which has seen multiple crop formations
appearing intermittently since the 1970s; with many appearing in the 1990s and
attracting national media attention.
"I
have designed mazes myself," said Karren, " but this surpasses
anything I've ever seen. The first maize maze I did took six weeks to create so
for this amazingly intricate pattern to be created so quickly is
astonishing."
Karren said
there was no evidence of any footfall in the fields apart from the tramlines.
"We are a busy farm shop and so there are people out in the fields around
here all the time, working, harvesting and picking, so nobody would have
particularly noticed anyone working in the field. We don't have any neighbours
so nobody reported anyone - or anything - in the vicinity to us, no torchlights
or anything like that".
The photo
has generated enormous interest among cerealogists, who have already visited
the site and taken photos using drones. "We are charging an entrance fee
to try to recoup the loss of two acres of wheat," said Karren; "but
the rest is to be donated to the STARS Appeal and the Dorset and Somerset Air
Ambulance."
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