It’s no wonder that farmers with fields in the plains surrounding Stonehenge, in southern England, face late-summer mornings with dread. On any given day at the height of the growing season, as many as a dozen farmers are likely to find a field marred by a circle of flattened grain.
This close-up of a crop circle near Avebury, England, shows how the grain has been flattened to create the pattern.
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