Spider's Web Crop Circle - Avebury, 1994

CCA-002 · Crop Circle Archive

Location: Avebury, Wiltshire, England
Reported: August 10–11, 1994
Crop: Wheat
Formation: Spider's Web

The Formation

In August 1994, an extraordinary geometric formation appeared beside the ancient Avebury landscape in Wiltshire, England.

Known today as the Spider's Web, the formation consists of a circular, web-like arrangement divided by radial lines and intersecting concentric geometry. The result resembles a precisely constructed spider web when viewed from above.

Its combination of radial symmetry, repeated divisions and circular structure makes the Spider's Web particularly striking when reduced to pure black-and-white geometry—the reason it was selected for the Crop Circle Archive collection.

The Avebury Setting

The formation appeared close to Avebury, one of Britain's best-known prehistoric ceremonial landscapes.

Avebury's enormous Neolithic henge and stone circles were constructed thousands of years before the 1994 formation appeared. The juxtaposition of modern crop formations with the ancient landscape surrounding Avebury has consequently attracted considerable interest from photographers, researchers, artists and crop-circle enthusiasts.

The proximity itself is historically interesting regardless of what interpretation is placed upon the formation.

Geometry

The Spider's Web is dominated by a circular structure divided into repeated radial sections.

Viewed as a graphic rather than an aerial photograph, the formation becomes an intricate geometric composition of:

  • radial divisions

  • concentric pathways

  • repeated angular segments

  • rotational symmetry

  • a strong central axis

  • web-like interconnected geometry

This archive illustration isolates those geometric characteristics from the surrounding crop and landscape.

Interpretations

Like many well-known crop formations, the Spider's Web has accumulated numerous interpretations.

Some researchers have explored possible astronomical or mathematical relationships in its geometry. Others regard formations such as this as sophisticated landscape art or human geometric constructions. Still others propose anomalous explanations for at least some crop-circle phenomena.

Crop Circle Archive does not assign an origin to the formation.

Our purpose is to document the design, location, date, historical record and geometry while clearly distinguishing documented information from interpretation.

We document the geometry. You decide what it means.

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The Spider's Web is catalogued as CCA-002 in the Crop Circle Archive collection.

Each CCA formation is reconstructed as a clean graphic so its geometry can be examined independently of aerial photography, field conditions and surrounding landscape.

CCA-002 is also available as part of our collection of archival prints and wearable formation graphics.

Historical Sources

The formation is documented in crop-circle archives as appearing at or beside Avebury in Wiltshire on August 10–11, 1994. Contemporary aerial photography of the formation is credited to crop-circle photographer Lucy Pringle.

Crop Circle Archive uses historical photographs and archive records as research references while creating its own graphic interpretation of each formation.

CROP CIRCLE ARCHIVE · CCA-002
Spider's Web · Avebury, Wiltshire, England · August 1994