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recorded which the on-site team was unable to account for. It was described as being like an ‘electronic sparrow’. As a measure of the worldwide interest in the circles, J ohn Macnish, the * &, Lad ty ‘, 1 Me a Nyv'el ta “ * The 1990 season began with a series of huge circles in the Avebury area, each sporting a delicate outer ring, or rings, including a spectacular triple ringer with four satellites, followed by an even bigger triple ringer, with a circle of 62 metres (203 feet) and an outermost ring measuring 85 metres (280 feet). If the giant circles in Wiltshire were essentially larger versions of formations seen previously, the next development in Hampshire was a leap into a completely new kind of formation, to which the description pictogram was given. On 23 May the first of these new designs was found, at Chilcomb, consisting of two circles joined by an avenue, with a pair of rectangular boxes on either side. This was followed by a half dozen variations on the same theme, all in Hampshire. The next elaboration was semi-circular rings round one of the circles, rather like a halo. producer, says that the BBC made £120,000 from sales of the recording of this noise. A circle at Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire, 1989 1990: The Appearance Of The Pictograms