What is this mysterious pattern?

A researcher was left bemused after stumbling across images of a peculiar spiral shape in the Coventry countryside.

Historian Chris McCauley was researching the Knight’s Templar when he spotted a mystery spiral pattern on satellite maps of an area in Temple Balsall.

The shape carved into the ground is about 30cm in length and was discovered in the tiny hamlet founded by the fabled Knights Templar 1,000 years ago. 

Speaking to the Coventry Telegraph about his discovery, McCauley said: 

“I was looking at the map and noticed something quite distinctive in the landscape; it appears to be some kind of spiral.

“Since I was unable to find any record of this marking, and the fact that it hasn’t even been acknowledged/reported as a crop circle, I can only hope that this maybe a genuine undiscovered archaeological feature.”

The area near Balsall Common is already shrouded in mystery after a magnificent crop circle featuring an 18-point star was discovered just half a mile from this more recent sighting. 

At the time, investigators claimed that the police obstructed visitors from the site, and that internet reports were deleted.

The circle, which also encompassed a central sun, eight-point star, pyramids and a number of oval-shaped ‘helmets’ was thought to have religious, spiritual or scientific meanings due to its similarity to the Cross of St John, a Lotus flower and a rose compass, and its mathematical properties.