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currently underway to stop this. Other areas around the country also pro- duced excellent works, including Sussex, with two very fine designs at Patcham and Lewes, amongst other formations, and at Sharpenoe in Bedfordshire, where a stun- ning pentacle with a ring of radiating lines impressed with its clean-cut precision. Ancient sites always seem to attract crop circles. Another appearance which made a firm connection with our prehistoric her- itage was the so-called "Celtic shield" design, a remarkably detailed circle con- taining over 400 tiny rings in a concentric configuration. It arrived at North Down, between Bishops Cannings and Beckhampton, Wiltshire, on 5th July. It was placed perfectly in line with a series of four burial mounds spread out in a linear fashion, and was directly on the spot where another mound, now removed, had been. Some new visual themes developed in 2003, sometimes playing with new types of design, such as the abstract pop-art pattern that appeared at Woodborough Hill on 14th July and the beautiful "swallows" emblem ie that turned up at Alton Barnes on 4th Tan Hill, near Stanton St Bernard, Wiltshire. Reported 24th June. August, which resembled flying birds trail- Image: Nick Nicholson and the Crop Circle Connector © 2003 ing necklaces of diminishing circles. ml pet Gaite * Hackpen Hill, near Winterbourne Bassett, Wiltshire. Reported 20th July. Image: Nick Nicholson and the Crop Circle Connector © 2003 56 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazi ne.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2003