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This sign structure is found on Nordic Bronze Age altars and in prehistoric Egypt.  is also a heraldic sign known as a mirror. As a Bronze Age ideogram it was most probably a sun symbol.
Compare with the Mayan cross,  , and with  , found in ancient Troy and made up of five sun signs and an arrow cross.
In eighteenth-century chemistry this sign was used for saccharum or sugar.
The same structure, but with a filled inner circle,  , is a modern German map sign for radio beacon (the sign  is a synonym).
In August 12 1989 this structure was a crop circle in southern England (see "Crop circles" in Part III).
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