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Stone circle, Crop circles and other weird encounters

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In the first day of August 2008, we had set off to Wiltshire to experience first-hand the strange phenomena of ' crop circles '. Hardly any simple 'circles' in recent decades - the pattern became more complex and ornamented. The term 'crop pictograms' or 'crop formations' are more suitable. Wiltshire is the world-capital of crop circles. Hundreds, if not thousands, appear there every year, and the debate continues - how, by whom and why they are being made. One interesting connection is that Wiltshire is home to Stonehenge and many other stone circles and ancient monuments - in a quantity, quality and antiquity - not met anywhere else in the world. Archaeologists have established that those monuments were built by the people who introduced farming in Britain. In the early morning hours, we started our stay in Avebury , home to the largest stone circle in the world. In the centre of the village, there is an idyllic rural pub next to some of the larg