Eileen Roche, Matthew Grimshaw and Gordon Millington travelled to Cheesefoot Head near Winchester, a place made famous by crop circles over the years. Arriving at about 2 p.m., they dowsed the width of the E-line with rods, finding that it started in the car park and continued west for 165 Eileen paces, 146 small Gordon paces. Gordon questioned whether it was the E-line.
The party then went into the field to the north-west of the car park, on the other side of the road, and investigated the corn circle there. This aligned perfectly with the E-line, being enclosed by it, and with the central axis aligning exactly on a hawthorn tree on the horizon on the edge of the car park where the E-line had been detected. This was the shape of the circle:
The party went back along the road towards Winchester and observed another circle in the field to the right. The other people had said that it had been there about three and a half weeks. The party then had a look at the "Tree of Life" pictogram opposite the strawberry kiosk, but were unable to decide if it was a fake or not. This was the shape, as drawn by Eileen on July 27th, 1991, when on a field trip with the London Earth Mysteries Circle:
Some men who came into the circle told us of another small one they had found three weeks previously near a tumulus to the north of that spot, where they saw the corn bent over. Some weeks later they returned and found that the corn had continued to grow, but upright from the bend, thus forming a "z" shape along the stems.
The party then went back to the car park and walked back along the "punchbowl", where a new circle had been formed some time the previous night. Other people in the car park confirmed that it had not been there on Monday.
We could not investigate it as the farmer was walking around in it, and then driving about the punchbowl in a white van, looking at his sheep. We did not want to trespass.
Eileen called this pictogram the "dod", as the shape reminded her of a snail. This was the shape:
In "The Circular" for this year, there was published a map of the corn circles and ancient sites in the Cheesefoot Head area. A number of alignments could be found between the circles and sites.
