The War Stone, Warstone Lane, Birmingham
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The War Stone, Warstone Lane, Birmingham
Image: © Noisar Taken: 6 Jan 2015
The inscription reads: “This felsite boulder was deposited near here by a glacier during the Ice Age: being at one time used as a parish boundary mark, it was known as the ‘Hoar Stone’ of which the modern War Stone is a corruption”.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.487096
Longitude
-1.913954