The formation was was still 'open' this morning. Sadly a whole coach load of 35 well-built Norwegians got there just before me and trampled the place like a herd of elephants, destroying the features of the central circle, according to two other visitors who witnessed the invasion. 

Still I thought it was a really nice formation. It is tucked away off a leafy by-way (the Macmillan Way) which could well be an ancient path, and there are many tumuli, barrows and trumps nearby. It's on limestone bedrock like nearly all of the Wiltshire formations and its only a few km from Kemble airfield on one side and the busy Cotswold Gliding Club airfield on the other. The location given is not quite right. If you look at the triangle formed by the byway and the two B-roads, the formation is not at the bottom end by the quarry, as marked, but less than a quarter of the way (200m) from the top rightend where the path meets the road. However there is better parking at the bottom end, so no harm to walk up. 

The crop is barley which is totally ripe, ears fully hanging and ready to harvest. Still there was little grain on the ground and no pigeons etc so I reckon it's only been laid a day or two. I thought it looked neat and crisp given the state of the crop. The design is interesting. The triangular daisy petal segments in the outer ring are similar to something we have seen before somewhere, but with an interesting extra feature in some of them: just where the stalks exit into the first ring with a typical flick, there is a standing tuft, meaning that only

a few stalks on each side of it are flattened. Probably they all had this before the coach party arrived. They are very even and regular in size despite the sloping site. Although there are 19 segments the symmetry is actually 20 as one is missing where the outlier circle is positioned. Either way, a tricky symmetry to plot. I also liked that the second ring and the inner circle are right off centre. There is no pattern left in the central circle now, sadly. 

Nothing I saw made me think for a moment that this was not a genuine formation.