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- Building Name or Address
- Bromley Millennium Rock #6
- Location of Geological Feature
- Burnt Ash Millennium Boulder. A block of Lewisian Grey Gneiss presented to the London Borough of Bromley in 2000.
- Description of geological feature
- Lewisian Gneiss
- Fossils
- Rock Type
- Gneiss
- Geological Age
- 2.7 Ga
- Quarry Location
- Lochinver, Sutherland, Scotland, UK
- Category
- Metamorphic
- Nearest station
- Sundridge Park
- Address
- Burnt Ash Lane BR1 5AA
- 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.
