{"id":4410,"date":"2015-12-11T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:18:34","slug":"lavington-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/lavington-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavington Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lavingtons Cave, Bridgnorth<\/p><\/div>\n

Geological overview<\/b>
\nThese rocks represent fossilised sand dunes and were part of a vast desert that existed around 299 million years ago.<\/p>\n

During Permian times the Geopark sat landlocked 20 degrees north of the equator on a single continent known as Pangea. This had formed from a drifting together of all the previous continental plates of the earth\u2019s crust. The wind was blowing sand dunes across a vast Sahara-like desert whilst occasional flash floods deposited alluvial fans.<\/p>\n

Close inspection of a typical Bridgnorth Sandstone shows the grains of sand within are well rounded and polished by abrasion as they bounced against each other across the desert surface. The sand is dyed red by iron oxide which weakly cements the grains of quartz together.<\/p>\n

Bridgnorth town was under siege in 1646, during the Civil War and a Colonel Lavington had forces dig tunnels towards the church, where St. Mary\u2019s stands and where Royalist explosives were stored. He intended to blow up the church, but the event never took place, after excavating a tunnel 70 feet long, the castle surrendered and the digging stopped.\u00a0 The caves\u00a0 have been used as habitations since they were formed.<\/p>\n

Location
\n<\/b>Bridgnorth, Shropshire; Grid Reference: SO 7176 9282<\/p>\n

Access
\n<\/b>Open<\/p>\n

Geologi<\/b>cal Age
\n<\/b>Permian – Bridgnorth Sandstone Formation<\/p>\n

Rock Types
\n<\/b>Sedimentary – sandstone<\/p>\n

Features<\/strong>
\nSedimentary structures
\nSocial history<\/p>\n

Interpretation
\n<\/b>Section 1 of the Geopark Way<\/a> trail
\nBridgnorth \u2013 Rocks beneath your feet <\/a>(a \u2018Walks For Health\u2019 Leaflet)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Lavingtons Cave, Bridgnorth<\/p>\n

Geological overview These rocks represent fossilised sand dunes and were part of a vast desert that existed around 299 million years ago.<\/p>\n

During Permian times the Geopark sat landlocked 20 degrees north of the equator on a single continent known as Pangea. This had formed from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6503,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/6503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}