post: Walkspace Erratics
Walk Report: Summer Solstice Erratic Stone Circle
To celebrate the Summer Solstice we walked a new stone circle into existence. The West Midlands may not be as blessed with megalithic monuments as other parts of the country but we DO have an abundance of another type of ancient rock: the glacial erratics which travelled here from North Wales on an ice sheet. […]
Walk Report: Wandering Rocks 2
For the second walk in our Wandering Rocks series we visited Birmingham city centre for more glacial boulders, geological curiosities and further examples of "beached heritage". The "wandering rocks" of the title refers to the erratic boulders which travelled to Birmingham from Wales on an ice sheet 450,000 years ago. The catalyst for this walk […]
Photos from Winter Solstice sunrise walk
For the final Walkspace Erratic of 2022 we visited Bordesley Henge in Birmingham to mark the Winter Solstice. Bordesley Henge is a municipal stone circle situated in Kingston Hill Park and is believed to date back to the 1990s. Six standing stones form a ring on top of a mound, up which a spiral footpath […]
