A few years ago, new steps and a disabled-access ramp were installed at Shire Hall, Warwick. The chosen medium for construction was a local building stone known as Hornton Stone, ...
Guy’s Cliffe House just outside Warwick lies on a good exposure of middle Triassic sandstone. The rock is a geological site of special scientific interest and on the geological conservation ...
Rhynchosaurs were reptiles that were widespread in the Triassic Period, their fossil remains have been found in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Madagascar, and India. The Warwickshire Museum has ...
The Jurassic rocks of southern and eastern Warwickshire have yielded many fossils over the last two hundred years, including the skeletons of ichthyosaurs – dolphin-like ‘fish-lizards’ made famous by Mary ...
Warwickshire has been a sea-bed in its time, with aeons-old, marine fossils found in geological exposures from north of Nuneaton to Burton Dassett. Today the county hosts a variety of ...
Amongst its historical collections, the Market Hall Museum in Warwick cares for and displays the skeleton of an extinct male Giant Irish Deer (or ‘Irish Elk’), dug from an Irish ...