Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

History HubΒ  permalink

Doomsday - contains a crop circle

• Message 1.Β 

  Posted by Martin Brown (U13772926) on Monday, 16th May 2011

  I am generally fairly skeptical about most crop circles as so many have been faked. But I happened to notice on the Doomsday programme on Saturday night that one of the tracking aerial helicopter views of Old Sarum, Wiltshire included by chance what looks to me like a serendipitous shot of a genuine and fairly complex crop circle at the bottom left corner of the frame.
  
  The relevant part can be seen using Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer at 54:15-54:24 into the programme with best overall view at 54:19:
  
  
  
  The crop circle looks to be new with sharply defined edges as compared to the tractor lines which are also visible where it turned at the field boundaries. It looks natural enough... does any better footage of it remain on the cutting room floor?
  
  Regards,
  Martin Brown

  Link to this forum: Doomsday - contains a crop circle

  Report message1

• Message 2

  , in reply to message 1.

  Posted by giraffe47 (U4048491) on Monday, 16th May 2011

  So that's why they called him William the corn-curer . . . .

  Link to this forum: Doomsday - contains a crop circle

  Report message2

• Message 3

  , in reply to message 1.

  Posted by Herewordless (U14549396) on Monday, 16th May 2011

  Yes, it's there alright. I don't know about crop circles though- they seem to me to be a modern phenomenon?
  
  The documentary was itself a brilliant programme- Baxter's theory that the Domesday Inquest of 1085-6 was not so much a vast tax investigation as a final confirmation of Norman regal authority and land ownership over a defeated Anglo-Saxon land, holds water to me.

  Link to this forum: Doomsday - contains a crop circle

  Report message3

• Message 4

  , in reply to message 1.

  Posted by Scriptofacto99 (U3268593) on Monday, 16th May 2011

  
  It looks like a secondary Iron Age Hill Fort, the site of the main fortified refuge having been altered during the construction of the castle leaving little obvious trace of the original Iron Age structure.
  
  A very interesting programme nevertheless.

  Link to this forum: Doomsday - contains a crop circle

  Report message4

Back to top