Keywords: Robert Plot - Natural History of Staffordshire 1686 - quadrangular cropmark.png by Robert Plot <blockquote> ¦They are rarely also seen of a quadrangular forme encompassed with another larger of the Circular kind whereof there were shewn to me no less than two examples by my Ingenious and observing friends John Naylor and Hugh Todd M M A A and fellows of the University Colledge in the same St Gile's fields which may be yet reconcilied to the same Hypothesis; the former proceeding from thre different flashes the second widening of the orifice of the cloud more than the first and the third more than the second and so frequently the Circles; the latter from the clouds breaking first in a quadrangular and after in a wider circular forme ¦</blockquote> In the modern view this drawing shows a cropmark but some cereologists conjectures that this is a historic crop circle cite book Robert Plot 1686 Oxford Natural History of Staffordshire Retrieved from http //www bltresearch com http //www bltresearch com/otherfacts php Page http //www bltresearch com/images/otherfacts/insertb gif Image cleaned up converted to grayscale Author 1686 Crop circles Robert Plot Cropmarks PD-old-100 |