DISPUTEDFRACTALS & GEOMETRY
The Knoll Down Dial
2002 · Knoll Down, near Beckhampton · Wiltshire · England
WHAT IT IS
Months after the harvest, a 62 m spoked dial still shows in the stubble as a ghost: the flattened crop grows back differently and the pattern lingers into winter.
WHERE IT STANDS
Disputed. No maker has claimed it. Sceptics say people made it; proponents point to what they say people could not do.
STATUS IS OUR CURRENT ASSESSMENT, NOT A VERDICT · REVIEWED 5 OCT 2026
THE RECORD
- DATE
- 2002
- PLACE
- Knoll Down, near Beckhampton · Wiltshire · England
- MADE BY
- Unclaimed
- TYPE
- Fractals & geometry
- TECHNICAL
- Wheat · spoked ring, about 62 m · made 28 July 2002; photographed as a stubble ghost 3 November 2002 · no maker found
