Bradgate Park is within a volcanic stone’s throw of the East Midlands city of Leicester. The area of Charnwood Forest, in which the park lies, contains “some of the oldest rocks in England according to the British Geological Survey web site (I’m guessing that Scotland possesses older rocks). Bradgate’s old rocks (Precambrian) are over 541 million years old.
The rocks that this Silver Birch is growing among (or on, or in) are “South Charnwood diorites”; they are PreCambrian, but they aren’t the really old rocks. You’ll find those under Bradgate’s folly, Old John. I had to scramble a little (down the diorites) to reach the slightly precarious footing from which I took the photographs that I based this drawing on.
Indian ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16 inches
£395
