Event: Mendip Rocks! 2016, 20th October – “Underground and Overground in the Mendip Hills”

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The finale of Mendip Rocks! 2016, which has been celebrating the 450 million year history of the Mendip Hills  is taking place at Wells Museum on Saturday 29th October 9.30am – 4pm – “Underground and Overground in the Mendip Hills”

Come along and enjoy a day of lectures and lunch,

Morning

09.30 am Coffee & Welcome to Mendip Rocks! Finale Day

10.00 am Alan Gray – “Ochre Mining and other minerals, Mendip Registry and Archive”

11.00 am Refreshments

11.30 am Duncan Price – “Deepest Mendip” – Cave diving to explore Mendip’s largest springs of St Andrew’s Well, Wookey Hole and Cheddar.

Lunch 12.30-1.15

Ploughman’s Lunch: local Cheddar or Pate, Roll, pickle and salad.
Cake/flapjack & Tea/coffee/juice! Or visit one of the local pubs.

Afternoon

1.15 pm Prof Chris King – “The Mendip Volcanoes” What were they like, would you have survived?

2.15 pm Tea – local fossils and Mendip Rocks! Box on display in foyer

2.45 pm Les Davies MBE – “Mendip Hills Through the Time Tunnel”

3.45 pm Final questions & thanks

4.00pm event finish

£10 to include ploughman’s lunch, tea and cake

.Wells Museum, Cathedral Green, Wells, BA5 2UE.

Booking: [email protected]

Tel: 01749 671770

All details on AONB website: www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk/aonb-events

Mendip Rocks! Facebook page: Facebook/@MendipRocks

www.earthsciencecentre.org.uk/news

www.somersetwildlife.org/events.html

For further information, contact:

Adel Avery, Festival Coordinator

[email protected]

Adel: 01749 840240 or 07870271588

Information received courtesy of Duncan Price