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Cherhill, near Calne, Wiltshire. Reported 17th July. Image by Steve Alexander © 1999. FIELD REPORT by Stuart Dike: Located directly below the famous White Horse of Oldbury Camp, or more common- ly named Cherhill Hill Fort, its appearance came within a flurry of reports that hit the area between 15th and 17th July. The floor constructions on this year's for- mations have been extremely impressive, and Cherhill is no exception. The pattern around the triangular sections on the out- side of the vortex flowed in two directions between each interlocking triangle. This is a feature seen on many designs over the years, but the Cherhill formation incorporates a separate pattern positioned just off the main design. This is not the first time this shape has appeared; it was first seen on the Silverstone formation in Derbyshire back in 1998. Devil's Den, near Clatford, Wiltshire. Reported 20th July. Image by Steve Alexander ©1999. FIELD REPORT by Stuart Dike: This formation is situated approx. 100 feet (30 metres) from an ancient dolman (top right), a wonderful set of three stones with a top lintel. On entering the crop formation, we noticed the floor construction was sim- ply beautiful. There were some wonderful, small, 2-3 ft channels running around the outer perimeter crop. On inspecting the many circles inside the formation, | noticed that all of them were running in a clockwise rotation; but on closer inspection it seemed that the smaller outer circles running down each diminishing arm were not quite circu- lar in form. The very night this design formed, a power failure was experienced by local res- idences between 11 pm and 1 am. Trottiscliffe, near Maidstone, Kent. Reported 20th June. Image by Andrew King © 1999. FIELD REPORT by Andrew King and Joyce Galley (CCCS): This formation consists of 43 circles, all clockwise, in three arcs of 12 with dimin- ishing diameters, centred on three sets of circles, each with one central circle. Some of the circles’ centres were offset from geo- metric centre and, clearly, the centres had all been much more heavily impressed than the outer parts. Some standing centres were noted, but since the formation was some 10 days old before we visited it, and had had a number of visitors, it was difficult to comment on how the original lay had been in the centres of most of the circles. Another Kent formation had three large circles/ovals with arcs overlapping at a cen- tral point where they all thicken. Diameters approx. 250 and 600 feet respectively. 62 - NEXUS OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 1999