Museum
Fossil Grove
Stumps of a Carboniferous forest preserved where they grew, under a Victorian building in a park.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Fossil Grove in Glasgow's Victoria Park starts with a trick of the eye: stumps that look like wood, from a forest that grew some three hundred and twenty-five million years ago. It follows the Victorian workmen who struck the first one in eighteen eighty-seven and the geologists who refused to dig the grove out. Best heard at the railing, looking down at the roots spreading from each base.
This audio guide was created using AI.