Glacial erratic at University of Manchester
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Glacial erratic at University of Manchester
Image: © Skinscribe Taken: 23 Jul 2008
This 20+ ton erratic of andesite from Borrowdale in the Lake District, was placed in the university's main quadrangle behind Manchester Museum, on Oxford Road, after being excavated 28 feet down at the junction of "Oxford Street and Ducie Street Manchester" (according to the nearby plaque). It is not clear where this site was, because Ducie Street and Oxford Street are separated by about half a mile of city centre along a line that the Rochdale Canal roughly follows - perhaps it dug up during the canal excavations - the Rochdale Canal's main Manchester basin is by Ducie Street. My reading of the recent review of the last glaciation to affect Northwest England suggests it would probably have been deposited between 25,000 and 19,000 years ago. You can find it here: www.mangeogsoc.org.uk/pdfs/delaney2.pdf
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Image Location
Latitude
53.46573
Longitude
-2.234944