2025 Circles: Falkner’s Circle, nr Avebury, Wiltshire
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Date Reported: 8 June 2025
Location: Falkner’s Circle, nr Avebury, Wiltshire
Crop circles will appear as, when and where they choose to do so. It doesn’t matter how the weather has been; it is of no importance if there is a festival or holiday taking place. It is irrelevant whether a farmer dislikes crop circles or otherwise.
As soon as the circle is made, the force that created it holds no ownership. It becomes a spectator like everyone else. That circle is at the mercy of the farmer and the wider world.
Photo by Hannah Kathleen
Sometimes fortune favours the crop circle. On this occasion, it didn’t. Just a day and a half or so of being in the field, the farmer chose to deface the centre of the formation (though early indicators are this hasn’t stopped visitors entering it).
No matter, as soon as we first saw this punchy crop circle, we knew there was a strong chance it would be short lived. This circle reminded us of the time when its relatives were regular features in the ancient landscape around the Avebury complex. Falkner’s Circle may be unfamiliar, largely because just one stone remains of a now demolished stone circle, but its former site is just a little way from West Kennett Avenue.
The crop circle is two fields behind, just under The Ridgeway. Here, sound doesn’t seem to travel very far and the busy A4 stretch between Marlborough and Beckhampton is not even a murmur. Only the odd motorbike going up or down West Kennett Avenue intrudes. Like crop circles themselves, this is a location to experience rather than merely see.
