DISPUTEDFRACTALS & GEOMETRY
The Milk Hill Rapeseed Spiral
2008 · Below Milk Hill, near Alton Barnes · Wiltshire · England
WHAT IT IS
A ringed spiral in flowering yellow oilseed rape, the first formation of the 2008 season, in the valley that has produced more of them than anywhere on Earth.
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
- 2008
- PLACE
- Below Milk Hill, near Alton Barnes · Wiltshire · England
- MADE BY
- Unclaimed
- TYPE
- Fractals & geometry
- TECHNICAL
- Oilseed rape · ringed spiral · 4 May 2008 · photographed from the Milk Hill scarp two days later · no maker found
