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Honister Slate Quarry, Borrowdale, Buttermere, Cumbria, NY22481354 -- Rock, souvenir roof slate, metamorphosed from tuff? from Honister Slate Quarry, Borrowdale, Cumberland, NY22481354, 7 November 2005.
On a visitor tour you might get the chance to split a slate from a block, and come away with a souvenir like this.
Ordovician; Borrowdale Volcanic Group.
(photo 7.11.2005)