Have you seen this rock? Project aims to find missing Midlands boulders
by Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#64X8R)
Organisers appeal to public for help tracking down ice age relics that were once subject of fascination
It was about 450,000 years ago that a glacier from Wales scattered hundreds of large boulders over what is now Bromsgrove and south-west Birmingham.
These ice age relics, some the size of a small car, became mini tourist attractions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attracting visitors from across the country in their best clothes who posed in front of them for photographs.
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