51/1922/3
Volcanic bombs are formed when larva cools in mid air before solidifying and hitting the ground.
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WIL186
555/2007/1
Fossilised worm tubes are found within this sandstone.
WIL409
DEV051
16/1926/1
Even the hardest rocks can be fractured by movements in the earth’s crust.
55/1916/2
Granite mainly consists of the minerals quartz, feldspar and mica.
1610/1909/14
Luxulliante is a rare type of granite that has been first described from a locality near the village Luxulyan in Cornwall.
17/2009
This impression was made in red-hot lava shortly after the eruption of Vesuvius in 1871.
68/2004
Meteors are lumps of rock that hurtle through space after breaking off from planets or moons.
68/2004/1
Meteorites are extraterrestrial lumps of rock fallen to the earth’s surface.
19/1916
Once mud dries under the sun it shrinks and develops a network of cracks and fissures.
22/2011/1
The idea of rocks falling from outer space can get people very excited.
22/2011/2
22/2011/3
22/2011/4
11/1933/G230
In the 18th and 19th century a specialised tool-making industry grew in East Devon.
118/1996c
Ventifacts or dreikanters are pebbles or cobbles that have been abraded and shaped by wind-driven sand grains.
WIL334a
WIL334b
WIL334c
51/1916/119
Brought to England by donor’s father, Captain George Shuldham Peard in 1828.
51/1916/120
51/1916/79
This was most often used in pairs to adjust the tension of the sinew backing cables of a bow.
51/1916/78
51/1916/80
51/1916/81
110/1981/331
These plasters would have been used to dress wounds in order to keep them clean and prevent infection.
110/1981/332
These adhesive plasters would have been used to dress wounds in order to keep them clean and prevent infection.
E1354
This bamboo roller was used in the highland areas of Viti Levu to apply a pattern to plain barkcloth, usually in the deep red colour which came from a dye made of candle-nuts.