Location Details
- Location of Geological Feature
- Chislehurst Common Boulder. A block of Lewisian Grey Gneiss presented to the London Borough of Bromley in 2000.
- Rock Type
- Gneiss
- Geological Age
- 2.7 Ga
- Quarry Location
- Lochinver, Sutherland, Scotland, UK
- Category
- Metamorphic
- Nearest station
- Chislehurst
- Address
- Chislehurst High Street BR7 5AB
- Building architect
- Bromley Council & Ravensbourne Geological Society
- Date of build
- 2000
- Find out more
- These stones are the result of a project by Austin Lockwood of the Ravensbourne Geological Society in 2000. On a visit to Lochinver, Sutherland, Scotland, Lockwood encountered a large number of blocks of gneiss quarried for sea defence structures. He arranged for 20 of these to be brought to Bromley to celebrate the millennium along with a hand specimen sized piece for every school child in the borough. There are 19 stones installed; a 20th was intended to be located at Charles Darwin's home at Down House, but this was never put in place (Paul Rainey, pers. comm.). Read more here.
Photos by Di Clements & Laurie Baker.
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