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Each summer, the Wiltshire countryside is host to a strange phenomenon. Swirls of flattened corn, or 'crop circles', litter the landscape like fingerprints. The county of Wiltshire is one of the most active areas for crop circles in the world, particularly around the historical stones of Avebury and Silbury Hill. In this ancient landscape, the grassy whorls take over the fields of rape, barley and wheat like massive installation art.  Crop
circles are geometric circles impressed in crops and other types of vegetation
and sometimes in sand, gravel, earth, ice and snow. In Wiltshire, widely
recognised as the centre of crop activity in the world, they are usually
found in fields of standing corn. Of the 175 recorded in England in 2000,
70 were found within a 15 mile radius of Avebury. In 2001, there were 184
crop formations recorded worldwide, of which 102 were in the UK. The circles range from small to large, to gigantic. The smallest circle recorded as part of a formation was six inches in diameter and the longest formation nearly a mile long. The biggest so far, consisting of 409 circles of various sizes and measuring 787ft in diameter, was found at Milk Hill in Wiltshire in the summer of 2001. If you needed any proof that crop circles come in all shapes and sizes then check out our selection of Circle Designs. But why is Wiltshire so prone to these mysterious phenomenon? Some have suggested it is because of the county's history of human occupation. Wiltshire is littered with monuments, ancient pathways, burial grounds and stone circles. Others have suggested that crop circles are merely performance art on a massive scale, while tourists continue to come from faraway in a bid to catch sight of one being made, perhaps by visitors from another planet. Whatever the reason, these phenomenon are sure to keep the curious enthralled for many crop circle seasons to come. |
 
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