Part 1: Ancient Geometries in Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire, Wheat

Charlbury, Wiltshire (red circled star in lower left southwest of Wayland's Smithy), and Toot Baldon and Garsington, Oxfordshire (upper right corner). The Vale of the Uffington White Horse extends north of Charlbury toward Garsington. — Charlbury, Wiltshire (red circled star in lower left southwest of Wayland’s Smithy), and Toot Baldon and Garsington, Oxfordshire (upper right corner). The Vale of the Uffington White Horse extends north of Charlbury toward Garsington.

Flower of Life inside a Vesica Piscis was reported on July 30, 2006, in this Toot Baldon wheat field southwest of Garsington, Oxfordshire. Aerial image © 2006 by Andrew King.

Closer aerial showing the "signature" to the left of the main Flower of Life inside Vesica Piscis. Aerial image © 2006 by Steve Alexander. — Closer aerial showing the “signature” to the left of the main Flower of Life inside Vesica Piscis. Aerial image © 2006 by Steve Alexander.

September 11, 2006 Santa Clara, California – Northwest of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is a farm region that includes March Baldon, Toot Baldon, Big Baldon, Little Baldon and Baldon on the Green. The entire region’s population is less than 500 people. Toot Baldon is located at the top of a hill and the name “Toot” means lookout. St Lawrence’s Church at Toot Baldon dates back at least to the 12th century and has wide views of the Thame valley to the Chiltern hills.

On July 30, 2006, Mark Fussel and Stuart Dike at Cropcircleconnector.com received an alert about a formation in a Toot Baldon wheat field. The first people to check it out and report back were Ellis Taylor, Geoff Ambler and Ross Holcomb. Ross wrote:

“Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire, Wheat, Two intersecting 400-foot circles with 60-foot-wide seed of life in centre of Vesica Piscis. It is two five-foot-wide intersecting rings measuring approximately 400 feet around (132 feet in diameter). There is a circle centered in the resulting Vesica Piscis which measures about 60 feet across. Within the centre of the circle is a 6-petaled “seed of life” formation. The southernmost ring is laid in a counterclockwise direction. Interestingly though, the northern most ring is split down the middle by a thin line of standing crop with the inner half of the ring flowing clockwise and the outer half o the ring flowing counterclockwise.

“Within the centre, there is a narrow ring of laid crop forming a circle around the seed of life petals. There is no nest to speak of in the centre, but one small nest in the laid sect ion of the crop between petals which points nearly due north from the centre of the formation. It feel very fresh and fluffy still, although I feel that it has been in the field for a few days (at least 2 to 4).”

On Thursday, August 3, 2006, I joined a caravan going toward Garsington to see the new formation. Along with us was Jennifer Kreitzer, a veteran photographer and event planner in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Jennifer would be the only person in the caravan to get photographs inside the Toot Baldon formation of a Flower of Life inside a Vesica Piscis.

Flower of Life Symbol

Flower of Life geometry made by pattern of overlapping circles.

The Flower of Life symbol is considered to be sacred among many cultures around the world, both ancient and modern. Within this symbol can be found all the building blocks of the universe that we call the Platonic Solids. The symbol can be used as a metaphor to illustrate the connectedness of all life and spirit within the universe.

Vesica Piscis

Interview:

Jennifer Kreitzer, Event Planner, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, and Owner, CaliDigital, Videography and Website Design, Santa Clara, California: “I have been interested in crop circles since I first heard about them, but never had a chance to go to England to see them. My friend, Barbara Lamb, invited me to go with her this year and I took her up on the opportunity. [ Barbara Lamb is co-author with Judith Moore of Crop Circles Revealed: Language of the Light Symbols © 2001.]

Barbara Lamb was in the habit of calling the Silent Circle Cafe every day to find out new formations so we could go visit them. There was a rumor that something was going on at Garsington. So, we got in the car and drove for two hours to get there. Then, it took a long time to find the wheat field and the formation. But finally we did and there were three cars in a caravan and about ten of us trying to park on the narrow country road.

SINCE I WAS THERE AS WELL, WHAT HAPPENED FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW?

For some reason, I was really excited to get into that formation. Andy Buckley (crop circle investigator from Manchester) jumped over the fence and headed down the tramline and I was right behind him. We were moving really fast because we had to go all the way down to the end of the field and back up the tramlines in order to get into the formation without stepping on any wheat. Andy was probably fifty feet ahead of me. As I approached the formation, there were little satellite circles on the side (“signature”). So, I started taking pictures of those.

Andy Buckley in background at main Vesica Piscis formation beyond the foreground "signature" at Toot Baldon, near Garsington, Oxfordshire, reported July 30, 2006. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer. — Andy Buckley in background at main Vesica Piscis formation beyond the foreground “signature” at Toot Baldon, near Garsington, Oxfordshire, reported July 30, 2006. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

Lay of wheat inside "signature" circle, Toot Baldon formation southwest of Garsington, Oxfordshire, England, first reported on July 30, 2006. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer. — Lay of wheat inside “signature” circle, Toot Baldon formation southwest of Garsington, Oxfordshire, England, first reported on July 30, 2006. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

Then I moved into the actual formation where there was a ring going around it and there was a thin line of wheat standing up, going right down the middle of that ring. Beautiful!

WHAT WOULD YOU ESTIMATE THE WIDTH OF THAT RING WAS?

The width was probably about five feet. The lay of the wheat was just gorgeous.

Only one of the two rings making the Vesica Piscis at Toot Baldon had a thin row of standing wheat right in the middle of the ring. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

Other Vesica Piscis ring that did not have thin row of wheat standing in the middle. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

HOW FAR DID YOU GET INTO THE MAIN FORMATION?

I took pictures of the ring and was walking towards the center and got a picture of the Flower of Life petals in the middle.

Flower of Life petals defined as standing wheat inside Vesica Piscis rings. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

That is when someone started calling out to Andy. We turned around and the farmer was actually screaming at us to come back (out of the field).

THE FARMER WAS TROMPING THROUGH HIS OWN WHEAT, KNOCKING IT DOWN AND NOT GOING ON THE TRAMLINES LIKE WE HAD ALL GONE WITH RESPECT FOR HIS CROP . BUT THE FARMER, SCREAMING AT US TO GET OUT OF HIS FIELD, WAS KNOCKING DOWN HIS OWN WHEAT.

Yes, he seemed livid. He was really, really angry. And it seemed like there was some sort of police car in the road. I saw a car that had lights on top. And I thought, ‘Oh, no. He’s called the police.’ The first thing I did was keep taking as many pictures as I could before we had to leave. As soon as I felt like I could not stay there any longer without making him even more angry, we both (Andy Buckley and I) started back down the tramline again.

THE REST OF US HAD BEEN CAUGHT IN THE TRAMLINE LEADING UP INTO THE FORMATION AND I THINK IT’S ONE OF THE MORE FRUSTRATING MOMENTS IN MY LIFE TO BE SO CLOSE TO WHAT SEEMED TO BE AN EXQUISITE PATTERN THAT WE COULD NOT GO INTO BECAUSE THE FARMER WAS SCREAMING AT US TO GET OUT.

Yes, that was really disappointing. I could not believe it. I thought, ‘Oh, no, I’m going to get arrested.’

By the time we had gone down the tramlines and back up where the farmer was, others in our caravan – who had not even made it over the fence yet – were talking to the farmer and calming him down enough to where we could talk to him without his screaming at us. We asked him if we could go back because we were researching. But he told us that the people who do this are ‘just drunk blokes from the pub.’

THAT’S RIGHT. WE TRIED TO TELL HIM WE WERE NOT DRUNK BLOKES FROM THE PUB.

Exactly. We are researchers. But he didn’t really care. I think he thought we were a bit off ourselves to even want to go into crop formations.

YES, HE WAS THE FARMER WITH THE ATTITUDE THAT CROP FORMATIONS WERE BEING DONE BY PRANKSTERS AND THE THING THAT ALWAYS GETS ME IS THAT IF HE HAD TAKEN THE TIME AND HAD THE PATIENCE TO SIMPLY WALK IN HIS OWN FIELD TO LOOK AT THAT PATTERN AND NOT GO WITH ANGER, BUT TO GO WITH CURIOSITY, THEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN AMAZED.

Oh, yes! It was a beautiful formation.”

To be continued in Part 2 – Charlbury, Wiltshire’s Magical Wheat Bundles

More Information:

For further information about crop formations, please see reports below and going back to 1999 in the Earthfiles Archives and my book, Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles in the Earthfiles Shop:

09/06/2006 — Part 4: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
08/31/2006 — Part 3: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
08/28/2006 — Part 2: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
08/27/2006 — Part 1: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
08/17/2006 — Military Helicopter Aggression Toward Red Sphere in U. K.
08/16/2006 — Etchilhampton August 15, 2006, Wheat Formation
08/15/2006 — Part 2 – Three Crop Formations Near Uffington White Horse – A “Merkabah?”
08/13/2006 — Part 1: Three Crop Formations Near Uffington White Horse
07/21/2006 — U. K. Breaking Heat Records and 17 Crop Patterns Reported Between July 4 – 20
07/07/2006 — Anomalies in Huntingburg, Indiana, Wheat Pictogram
06/11/2006 — Updated: Two Mysterious Circles in Wheat Baffle Kansas Farmer
04/07/2006 — First 2006 Grass Circles in Conondale, Queensland, Australia
09/21/2005 — Silent, Unidentified Aerial Triangle Entered Thunderstorm Over Fairborn, Ohio
09/02/2005 — “Mayan Clock”? in August U. K. Crop Formations
09/02/2005 — Part 1: New York and Ohio Corn Circles “Flattened 2 to 5 Feet Above Ground”
09/02/2005 — Part 2: Mysterious Lights At Coles County, Illinois, Corn Circles
09/02/2005 — First 2005 Canadian Crop Circles Reported
08/09/2005 — Three Extraordinary U. K. Crop Formations Reported August 9, 2005
08/07/2005 — Mysterious Light Photographed in Canadian Woods
08/02/2005 — Part 2: Anomalies Confirmed in Pennsylvania and Arizona Randomly Downed Crops
08/02/2005 — Part 1: Anomalies Confirmed in Pennsylvania and Arizona Randomly Downed Crops
07/23/2005 — Mystery of Six Grass Circle Formations in North Carolina
07/18/2005 — Garsington, Oxfordshire, U.K. Wheat Formation – Astronomical Orbit?
07/01/2005 — U. K. Bicyclist Reports Mysterious, Low Hovering Objects Bending Wheat
06/28/2005 — Crop Circles in Poland
06/02/2005 — Part 2 – Highly Anomalous Pigment Formation in 2004 Hillsboro, Ohio, Crop Formation
05/26/2005 — Phoenix Barley Mystery: Apparently Irrigation and Wind
05/20/2005 — May 2005 Crop Formation Update in Six Countries
05/09/2005 — Mysterious Lights and 2003 Serpent Mound Soybean Formation
04/20/2005 — Outer Space Impact At Serpent Mound, Ohio, 256 Million Years Ago
04/12/2005 — First 2005 Dutch Crop Circles Reported in Hoeven, Holland Grass
10/17/2004 — American Crop Formations: 1880-2004
09/22/2004 — Miamisburg and Serpent Mound, Ohio Crop Formations: Geometries Compared
09/17/2004 — Updated: Part 1 – High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
09/12/2004 — Part 2 – High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
09/10/2004 — Update on Miamisburg, Ohio, Corn Pictogram – Balls of Light?
09/05/2004 — Part 2 – Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Plant Anomalies
09/04/2004 — Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Formation – High Strangeness in Soil and Plants
09/02/2004 — Updated Photos: Big, Impressive New Corn Formation in Miamisburg, Ohio
08/29/2004 — Another Pictogram in Poland
08/12/2004 — Circles in Belgium and Holland
08/10/2004 — Updated Aerial Photos of West Overton, Wiltshire “Serpent”
08/09/2004 — Pictograms in Poland
08/03/2004 — Crop Formations: Fifteen in Southern England Since July 20, 2004.
07/26/2004 — Crop Circles in Tilden, Wisconsin Oats and 90-Degree Angles in Litchfield, Minnesota
07/25/2004 — 2004 Canadian Crop Formations: Scorched Soybeans and “Dirt” Pattern in Barley
07/24/2004 — Part 3 – Crop Formations and Mysterious Lights in Wiltshire, England, July 2004
07/24/2004 — Part 2: Crop Formations and Mysterious Lights in Wiltshire, England, July 2004
07/15/2004 — Updated: Part 1-Beyond Hillsboro, Ohio, More Corn Down in New Milford, Connecticut
07/13/2004 — Updates on Spanish Fork, Utah Barley Formation
07/07/2004 — Fourth 2004 Crop Formation in Poland Has Multiple Parts
07/06/2004 — Mysteriously Downed Plants in Eagle Grove, Iowa, and Hillsboro, Ohio
07/06/2004 — Additions to Spanish Fork, Utah Formation and Mysterious Lights Seen
07/04/2004 — Crop Formation in Spanish Fork, Utah
06/17/2004 — More 2004 Holland and Poland Crop Formations
06/16/2004 — England: 2004 Crop Formations and 2003 Research
06/03/2004 — Updated – Second 2004 Pictogram Crop Formation in Poland
06/02/2004 — 2004 Peach Orchard, Arkansas Crop Formation
05/24/2004 — Biophysicist W. C. Levengood’s Crop Circle Reports Available for First Time On Internet
05/22/2004 — 2004 Overview of Crop Formations in Six Countries
05/17/2004 — Updated – Crop Formation Reported in Zabno, Poland
05/11/2004 — An Extraordinary Photograph in A Dutch Home
05/09/2004 — 2003 English Crop Formations on Documentary DVDs
04/14/2004 — Light Anomalies in Photos of Conondale, Australia Grass Circles
12/05/2003 — Diatonic Ratios and Seed Changes in 2003 California Wheat Circles Rule Out Hoax?
11/07/2003 — British UFO Crash Retrievals
11/01/2003 — Another Soybean Formation in Ohio
10/17/2003 — 2003 “UFO Flap” in Ohio
10/03/2003 — Part 2 – Military Interest in Serpent Mound and Seip Mound Formations?
10/02/2003 — Part 1 – Another Soybean Formation Near Seip Mound in Ohio
09/12/2003 — Second Soybean Crop Formation in Ohio is Manmade. USAF Investigation Unit Involved?
09/06/2003 — Part 2 – Unusual Soybean Formation Near Serpent Mound, Ohio
09/05/2003 — Part 1 – Unusual Soybean Formation Near Serpent Mound, Ohio
09/03/2003 — Helicopter “Attacks” Wiltshire, England, Residents At Knap Hill on August 26, 2003
08/29/2003 — Part 2 – After August 10, No Crop Formations Except in Canada?
08/29/2003 — Part 1 – Why Do Military Helicopters Focus On Crop Formations?
08/23/2003 — Fourteen Crop Formations in Canada
08/05/2003 — Field Notes from Morgan’s Hill Crop Circle
08/01/2003 — Field Notes About English Animal Mutilations
07/21/2003 — Strange Orange Lightning and A Sampling of Recent English Crop Formations
07/19/2003 — Update – Defiance, Missouri T-Pattern Cut in Saplings
07/17/2003 — Land Surveyor Comments About Ogbourne St. George, U.K. Crop Formation
07/16/2003 — Unusual Details in Dutch Crop Formations
07/11/2003 — Updated: Part 2 – Unusual Cylindar-Shaped Cloud Seen Night Before Dutch Crop Circles
06/27/2003 — Part 2 – Mysterious Lights and Fourteen Crop Formations in Italy
06/27/2003 — Part 1 – Mysterious Lights and Fourteen Crop Formations in Italy
06/13/2003 — Updated: Fractal Crop Formation in Knobel, Arkansas
05/26/2003 — East Sussex, England Has Third 2003 Crop Formation
05/20/2003 — More 2003 Crop Formations in Germany
05/10/2003 — Tree Formation in Defiance, Missouri
05/02/2003 — First 2003 English Crop Formations
04/29/2003 — Comparison Between First 2003 and 2002 U. K. Crop Formations
04/26/2003 — First 2003 U.K. Crop Formation Near Petersfield, Hampshire
12/07/2002 — Evolution Near Britain’s Chilbolton Radio Telescope Observatory, 1999 – 2002
11/05/2002 — Canadian Crop Circles and Mysterious Lights in Saskatchewan
10/19/2002 — Shifting Time Lines and Earth’s Destiny?
10/03/2002 — Part 3 – 2002 Crop Formations In Canada
10/01/2002 — Part 2 – September 2002 Maize Circles Update: Canada
09/28/2002 — Part 1 – September 2002 Maize Circles Update: England
09/02/2002 — Blue Lights and Helicopters in Wiltshire’s East Field
08/31/2002 — One ET Experiencer’s Reaction to the Winchester Formation
08/24/2002 — Crop Formation Update: Canada
08/19/2002 — Winchester, Hampshire Circular Code Analysis – UPDATED
08/18/2002 — Another Face and Code Appears in Hampshire, England – UPDATED
07/25/2002 — Strange Stem Anomalies in New Dutch Crop Circles
07/20/2002 — Mysterious Lights Seen Above Field Where Nautilus Formation Emerged
07/13/2002 — More Crop Formations in Holland and Germany
07/12/2002 — New Crop Formation in England
07/06/2002 — Stonehenge 4th of July Formation Echoes Hackpen Hill 1999 4th of July Spiral
06/26/2002 — Part 1 – New Crop Formations in England, Holland and Germany
06/04/2002 — New 2002 Crop Formations in Wiltshire and Sussex, England
05/23/2002 — Third 2002 Crop Formation in Germany Near Giant’s Stone
05/11/2002 — First 2002 Crop Formation In Wiltshire, England
05/09/2002 — More Orange Triangular Aircraft Over Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
05/04/2002 — Two Crop Formations Near Kassel, Germany
11/17/2001 — Scientists Say Lights in Hessdalen, NorwayAre Thermal Plasmas of Unknown Origin
10/27/2001 — Another Orange Triangle Near Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
10/10/2001 — Update On Unique British Crop Formations
09/27/2001 — A Scientific Report About British Milk Hill, Chilbolton “Face” and “Code”
09/22/2001 — Huge Hexagram Crop Formation in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
09/19/2001 — Part 2 – Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England – Two Unusual Crop Formations
09/18/2001 — Part 1 – Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England – Two Unusual Crop Formations
09/07/2001 — Third Case of Pure Hemoglobin at Bull Mutilation
08/30/2001 — Chilbolton Observatory – What Does It Do?
08/25/2001 — Are Crop Formations at Chilbolton Observatory A Response to 1974 Earth Transmission?
08/22/2001 — Milk Hill 2001 – 409 Circles, Most For Any Crop Formation So Far
08/09/2001 — Crop Formation in Holland Changes with Researchers Present
06/16/2001 — Beyond Stonehenge with Astronomer Gerald Hawkins
06/06/2001 — New Crop Formations Reported in Serbia and U. K.
05/31/2001 — More Crop Formations in England
05/21/2001 — Part 2 – New Crop Formations in Holland, Germany and England
05/19/2001 — Part 1 – New Crop Formations in Holland, Germany and England
09/30/2000 — Unidentified Moving Spiral of Light Photographed in Crop Formation
08/27/2000 — Crop Circle Reports from Whitefish, Montana – Updated Photos
08/26/2000 — Pulsing, Jumping Light in West Stowell, England Field
08/23/2000 — Intelligence Sensed In Mysterious Lights Associated With Crop Formations
08/20/2000 — Crop Formations In North Dakota
08/19/2000 — White Balls of Light and Helicopter Videotaped in Woodborough Hill Field
08/17/2000 — Mysterious Light Near Woodborough Hill Night Before August 13, 2000 Formation
07/16/2000 — Multiple Crop Formations Same Day in Wiltshire and Hampshire, U. K., July 16, 2000
07/09/2000 — New Book about Ancient Sites of Wiltshire, England
07/06/2000 — Extraordinary U. K. Crop Formations
06/17/2000 — Army Helicopters Damage East Field, Wiltshire Crop
06/11/2000 — Two New Crop Formations at Silbury Hill
05/30/2000 — Crop Formations In Germany, May 2000
11/30/1999 — A New Crop Formation In Marion, New York and Crop Research Updates
09/29/1999 — Crop Formations Continue in Canada
09/21/1999 — 1999 Summary of Crop Formations in Canada and Latest 9/21/99 Edmonton Circles
08/15/1999 — More Mid-August 1999 Crop Formations in Wiltshire, England
08/01/1999 — 1999 Crop Circle Update from Wiltshire, England
07/22/1999 — Cherhill, England, New 1999 Crop Formation
07/15/1999 — Brentwood, Tennessee Crop Formation and New U.K. Photos by Peter Sorensen
06/27/1999 — New 1999 U. K. Crop Formations Photographed by Peter Sorensen
06/07/1999 — 1999 U.K. Crop Circle Update with Photographer Peter Sorensen