The Bishops Cannings Formation

Friday - June 5, 1998

An aerial shot by Steve Alexander ©1998

This formation overlooks the A361 road between Beckhampton and Devizes. It is some distance from Bishops Cannings and this name might have caused some confusion. I was too late to visit it but I have seen excellent ground shots and spoken to early visitors. This is a second-hand report.

A ring of fifteen circles and an eye surround a somewhat larger central circle. There seems to be something pressured about the construction. Several of the circles appear to come together imprecisely and the eye is a little distorted by its two circular neighbours. Despite this, the eye clearly approximates the classic almond shape of a vesica. The "tracer path" which defines the whole formation runs clearly through the iris and pupil of the eye.




A drawing by Michael Glickman ©1998

The lay was exemplary. Each circle contained both clockwise and counter-clockwise sweeps which, when they met, formed a raised ridge of crop.

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