Birmingham's Erratic Boulders

We are a NLHF-funded project hoping to find, document and bring to prominence the local glacial erratic boulders - SW Birmingham's own relics of the Ice Age!

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👣Timeline Trail👣
We are absolutely delighted that the Timeline Trail rubbing posts have now been installed in Balaam's Wood.
Many thanks to The Friends of Balaam's Wood for their help and support, and @NSD_SIGNS for the wonderfully detailed plaques.

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Our End of Project Celebration is this Saturday at Rowheath Pavilion from 1:30pm.
We'll be giving some short talks, there will be project displays, an opportunity to vote for your favourite boulder, 🫖 and 🍰
Bookings are via Eventbrite:
https://t.co/EEbvWhR7E0

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Earlier this month, a small group of us went on an informal visit to Arenig Fawr in N Wales. Our aim was to compare the rocks of the area to the SW Birmingham erratics. It was a fantastic day!
We plan to compile some notes based on this visit. Do email us if you'd like a copy. 🙂

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Join us this Saturday at Woodgate Valley Country Park!
Guided walk: Illey Wilderness Trail starting at 10:30 a.m. Bookings are via Eventbrite:
https://t.co/dSbcI4RLPF
Launch: From 11 to 3. Find out about our project, trails and have some fun with our children's activities!🦕

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We're really looking forward to Bromsgrove Carnival this Saturday! We'll be sharing our latest trail - Trail 6: Around Bromsgrove and Tardebigge. 👣🚴
Pick up a free trail guide and find out about Bromsgrove's Ice Age past. We'd love to see you there! 🙂

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Free Guided Walk - Woodgate Valley to Quinton.
Our next guided walk will be Trail 4 - Woodgate Valley to Quinton, which we will be running during @GeoWeekUK.
It's on Monday 29th May 2023, and booking is via Eventbrite.
We hope you'll be able to join us!
https://t.co/aRuULBjarA

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Some of the boulders in our project area have metal plaques on or adjacent to them. Examples include Bell Heath, Clent and Fladbury. We'd love to learn more about these plaques, such as their age and by whom they were installed. Please let us know if you have any information! 🙂

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We are really looking forward to attending Earth Day at Weoley Castle Square on Saturday 22nd April. We'll have badge and volcano making, our slime glacier and our brand new Trail 4 leaflets!

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Many thanks indeed to our volunteers who joined the BCGS at a clearance session of the Illey Pastures Boulder earlier this month.
This fantastic example of an Arenig erratic is only partially exposed, and we were keen to get a better idea of just how large it is!

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We'll be at The Lapworth Museum tomorrow from 12:00 to 5:00 for our 'From Fire to Ice' Family Event. Make your own volcano, a Jurassic creature badge or decorate a snowflake! This will be our last event of 2022, so do join us if you can!

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Huge thanks to all those that have been in touch with us following the recent media interest in our project. We have received numerous 'boulder sightings' and our volunteer team is busy checking them out!
We'll report back soon with details of any new finds!

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@miriam_jane @LapworthMuseum We are so glad you're enjoying the trails, Miriam!

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Exciting news!
Some of our Project Team were interviewed by the BBC today! Filming started at the @LapworthMuseum then moved to other locations. We are hoping to feature in Midlands Today this evening.

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@Duzc1972 @LapworthMuseum Thanks, Chris! We'll take a look.

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Our temporary exhibition at The Lapworth Museum - Birmingham's Boulders - is now in place. Visitors to The Lapworth can view the displays until mid-January. Many thanks to designer Antony and Lapworth staff John and Lizzy for their fantastic contributions to the exhibition.

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After a lovely day at Rowheath Pavilion last Saturday, we held our Trail 7 Launch on Sunday.
Many thanks to Mike of Cannon Hill Park, and to Andy and Alison, our fabulous ride leaders, for helping make the launch a success!
We hope to offer another guided ride of Trail 7 soon.

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Trail 7 Launch Tomorrow!
We are very excited to be launching Trail 7 tomorrow. It's our first cycling trail of the project, and we can't wait to share it!
🚲

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We'll be at Rowheath Pavilion tomorrow as part of Bournville Heritage Open Day 2022. We'll be running children's activities, handing out our trail leaflets and discussing Rowheath's intriguing missing boulder!
We hope to see some of you there!

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We are looking forward to joining the team at The Lapworth Museum tomorrow for their Ice Age Explorers event!
Join us on a Megalodon Tooth Hunt or make your own Sabre-toothed Cat. We'll be giving talks about the Ice Age, visiting a boulder and more.
We'd love to see you there!

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Our trail 7 leaflet - Boulders by Bike - has just arrived in the office ready for our launch in Cannon Hill Park on the 11th September!
We'll be running a guided cycle tour on the day, which can be booked through the Birmingham Heritage Week website:
https://t.co/schEPTLVof