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Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, 15th May 2025 Thank you to the farmer here at Sutton Veny for allowing visitors to what is (as you will see below) a truly beautiful, early-season crop circle. Please pay the £10 entrance fee, which will go toward reimbursing the farmers for the flattened barley in this formation.  Sometimes, as we enter ringed formations, we first note the direction of laid stems in the outer ring. Investigating this often reveals anomalies and intricacies within the laid crop but on more occasions, more details lie within central and more complex parts of the design. Here though, entering the ring via the central tramlines, visitors are immediately struck by the complex, fluid and perhaps even chaotic nature of the flow. While there are other points of note throughout the formation, it really is the flow, everywhere, that is the stand out feature.   Every single step around the outer ring and then throughout the central 'knot' design reveals further examples of stems that have been laid in every direction. There are swathes of stems that overlap in all directions. Sometimes, bands of stems are 'split' centrally, some appearing to have been 'combed' to the left, others to the right.  The condition of flattened stems across the whole design appears perfect and untouched. This is emphasised when stems underneath layers of crop are investigated closely. Despite being closer to the groud, stems here display the same integrity as those in upper layers.  There is also a useful comparison to be made with areas of the formation that have been walked on by visitors and the many areas that have not. Put simpy, there is very clear evidence of the impact of a few pairs of feet on the flattened stems; the stems that have been walked on are flattened, wheras those in other areas are not!  A particularly intricate feature in the laid stems can be seen in the inner 'petal' shapes of laid crop that form part of the central 'knot' design. As we have seen in both barley and wheat formations in recent years, the 'points' have been created simply by a gentle laying of stems. Looking closely at these four parts of the crop circle shows that rather than being laid flat, which might be expected in the accurate creation of such a design, the stems rest against the standing crop, in some places only inches from the seedheads.  Alongside these repeated features, and within the beautifully flowing laid crop evident throughout the formation, there is a final point of interest where a bunch of stems appear to have been 'folded' back on themselves as part of the flow.  I cannot emphasise enough what a beautiful and perfect crop circle this is. There is much more to say about its position in the landscape, including the placement of the formation between the trees at either side, which, according to researcher Peter van den Berg are integral to the design itself (more to come on this soon). In 2009, as many of you will know, one of the best, most impressive and most memorable crop circles of the last three decades graced the fields of Yatesbury in Wiltshire. The Phoenix displayed one of the most impressive ground lays ever seen in barley. I do not make this comparison lightly; the crop circle at Sutton Veny, is, perhaps the closest to the Phoenix in quality on the ground that I have seen. It has the same woven, flowing, lightly flattened swathes of barley and the same perfect condition. It feels like a rare and amazing thing and we are very lucky to have been offered this gift in 2025.  THE PHOENIX 2009  Crop Circle Summary
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