Crop circles are back, and this time they're in 3-D!

Last updated at 22:43 01 July 2007

A floor of chequered tiles stretches down a long, high-ceilinged corridor with doors leading off each side.

And the art of crop circles reaches a new height of sophistication.

The astonishing three-dimensional design, 200ft in diameter, has been created in a wheat field at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire.

Only yards away are the 5,000-year-old West Kennet Longbarrow burial grounds, one of the largest and most impressive Neolithic graves in Britain.

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The astonishing three-dimensional design, 200ft in diameter, has been created in a wheat field at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire

According to folklore, the mound is traditionally visited at sunrise on Midsummer's Day by a white figure accompanied by a white hound with red ears.

It has been the setting for several crop circles in the past, including an elaborate 350ft pattern featuring a giant Egyptian mosaic in the shape of two wings, surrounded by symbols which bear a striking resemblance to the Mayan calendar which predicted that the world will end in 2012.

The latest design was photographed by Steve Alexander, who with his wife Karen, a writer, has been researching crop circles for more than 15 years.

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The art of crop circles reaches a new height of sophistication

Mrs Alexander-said: "It's one of the most architectural designs we have seen, rather than purely geometric.

"In traditional geometry a square represents material reality and a circle represents the divine or heavenly realm.

"A lot of people are saying this circle represents the passageway through the physical world to the divine world."

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Some of these works of art are rather close to seals once used by the cults that worshiped at those places. Who are we to judge what is real and what is "hoax" as you say? If you are not aware, it is because you are not meant to be. All you can really do is appreciate the beauty of the art, because it is all that is really there. The rest, no matter how founded, is merely speculation, with no one or group of man being the wiser. It is simply, amazing. I hope the lady visits the Midlands more often.

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- Jaded Dragon, Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, 03/7/2007 14:34

"I just don't believe man (armed with the best PC and GPS systems) is capable of such art.."

A team of 40, armed with rope, PVC piping, ladders, and wood planks could easily create something of this scale overnight.

A mate of mine has been creating crop circles for 15 years now (with a large team. Many of them have made top research papers and have fooled hundreds of scientists and supernatural "experts" worldwide.

Crop circles can even be made during the day while the landowner is away... they don't notice it until a couple days later.

Apparently, there are even videos of college students creating massive crop circles available on the internet.

Just because they're so large, it does not mean that could not have been created by humans. A large percentage of world believe that the Pyramids were created by aliens, for example. They refuse to believe that man is capable of such architecture.