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Wildmoor sandstone, base of Tettenhall ridge

Sandstone

Wildmoor sandstone direcly underlies the Bromsgrove conglomerate featured in a post yesterday. Here are two exposures of the rock heading from the Smestow valley towards Tettenhall ridge.

The first is in one of the many former quarries which are cut into this rock along the Smestow valley. The quarry now forms the site of Sandy Hollow, a small cul de sac off Compton Holloway.

Sandstone

The second is again a quarry face: this time the former quarry now forms the grounds of a house on Old Hill, Tettenhall, just downhill from the Mount public house.