Location: Watership Down, Nr Ashley Warren, Hampshire
Lead photograph by Nick Bull
Photography by Nick Bull
Simplicity and placement are the magical facets of a pictogram, but not everyone understands that. Perhaps they’re viewed as outdated in 2021. Unattractive, basic and simple. A weird old Leyland as opposed to a contemporary Bentley. Maybe those who mock old style circles just never experienced the wonder of watching an early 1990s television report and seeing shaky aerial shots, or viewing indistinct footage of a ‘glyph’ captured from a hillside.
It’s telling that someone who always knows better has been complaining that this pictogram is centred on a tramline. The Croppie won’t name them, but it’s easy to be a know all when you’re devoid of any sense of crop circle history. Another know all who knows very little.
Crop circles weren’t always about size or being flashy. They could be small and simple. Circles. Rings. And then the straight lines came in during 1990 and the pictograms were born. A fair few pictograms were centred upon tramlines. Just like this formation.
Take the time to read books by the likes of Pat Delgado, Colin Andrews and Michael Green. Read the old editions of magazines such as The Cerealogist in the documents section of this site. You might learn something.
Hey Obsessed Stalker, good to see that you’re still visiting The Croppie and betraying your identity with your catty drivel. Jealousy hurts though, chunk. Why bother insulting third parties through your comments here? It’s like you’re scared to approach them.
We can all read up on BBC retro sci-fi (or watch YouTube vids), but we can also all read up on crop circle history. The pictogram arrived in 1990. One imagines your psychology book had expired long before then. You’ve got nothing and rely upon unsolicited mailings of underwear to people in an attempt to, well, an attempt to do what? Intimidate, draw them in? Increasingly desperate.
You were going to explain the point of crop circles not too long ago. Whatever happened to that? You’ve spent more than half a decade raging about one person, following them around incessantly and drooling. You look a bit nuts, blobby.