Title: The Hanging Stone, Charnwood Lodge. Volcanic Agglomerate

Creator: William Whitehead Watts

Description: This formation is now known as Oaks Pinnacle. It is found in the Charnwood Forest area of Leicestershire near Charnwood Lodge, which used to be a private estate and is now owned by Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.

This is one of a number of lantern slides (there are 412 in total) found in a damp and dirty ‘potting shed’ presumably in the late 1990s and subsequently donated to the Geological Society in 2001.

Date: [1896]

Format: Black and white photographic lantern slide

Archive reference: LDGSL/1088/WW/2

Image reference: 02-15

Recommended print size: Up to 10 x 8 inches (25 x 14cm)