Recently visited the Bowder Stone in Borrowdale near Keswick. The giant stone weighs 2000 tonnes, is 30 feet high, 30 feet across and 90 feet in circumference, balancing all by itself. The stone is from the local Borrowdale area - part of a volcanic succession of rocks, evidence suggests that it came down as part of a rock fall dislodged from the Bowder Stone 200 metres above after the Borrowdale glacier retreated.
Below is a photograph taken by myself when passing through. The photo is poor quality and does not celebrate the stone in all its glory, the second photograph is from a secondary source.
Though it is just a stone it is a valuable experience visiting it. To think that it settled in its this exact place between 10,000 to 13,500 years ago is incredible to me, yes there may be dinosaur bones from 65 million years but I have never seen such a gigantic stone almost balancing on one corner, in the same position it fell into over 10 thousand years ago.
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