The Furze Hill Formation

Monday - June 22, 1998

An aerial shot by Steve Alexander ©1998

The Furze Hill formation, tantalisingly close to the East Field at Alton Barnes, had one of the best and most complex lays I have ever seen. The wheat was strong and close-growing and acted as a very powerful medium for the circle makers. On the first day the surging sweep of the crop had the vigour of powerful brush-strokes in oil paint. A few days later, while the overall form remained, the elegant carpet had grown out very quickly, perhaps because of the consistent rainfall which followed.

Geometrically, it played an inventive and sophisticated game with the Vesica Pisces. Classically, this is formed when a circle is drawn with its centre on the perimeter of another of the same size. The resulting almond shape is known as the Vesica Pisces and the diagram is the symbol of the Division of Unity or of manifestation.




A drawing by Michael Glickman ©1998

In this case, the diagram has been elaborated by the addition of two further circles. These serve both to develop four "petals" and to create an enigmatic seed-form at the centre of the vesica. If these four circles are overlaid on the formation its numerical genius can be seen. One-ness, two-ness and three-ness are oviously dealt with, but four circles with four petals become five vesicas and then six petals. I know of no other geometric form which can do this.

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