FOSSILISED animals set into stone thousands of years ago are set to take centre stage at a new Swindon exhibition.
Fabulous Fossils is the name for Swindon Museum and Art Gallery's upcoming exhibition starting on June 18.
Millions of years ago the country was covered by a sub-tropical sea teeming with marine life while during the Ice Age, woolly mammoths and bears roamed the landscape.
The new exhibition is in collaboration with local palaeontologist Dr Neville Hollingworth who found a 30,000-year-old skull of a woolly mammoth in the park in early 2004.
The exhibition pays homage to the area's prehistoric past by featuring fossils, including those from ammonites, mammoth bones, and fossilised wood, many of which were discovered in gravel pits around the Cotswold Water Park near Swindon. Admission to the exhibition, which began on May 7, is free and will run until November 5 at the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery on Bath Road in Old Town.
The Fabulous Fossils exhibition will take over from the current Spotlight on Ceramics exhibition.
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