The Great Stone boulder
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Great Stone boulder by Richard Law as part of the Geograph project.
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The Great Stone boulder
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 8 Jan 2020
Located for safekeeping inside Image in the 1950s, this glacial erratic is described on the blue notice as "formed in an explosive volcanic eruption during the Ordovician period, 450-460 million years ago. During the last Ice Age possibly up to 400,000 years ago, it was carried by an ice sheet from the Snowdon area... and deposited with others around Northfield... For generations it lay at the corner of Church Road and Church Hill where it protected the Inn Wall"
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Image Location
Latitude
52.412415
Longitude
-1.964819