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SPACE ROCK NO2
Second chunk of rare 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite dug up in muddy field in Gloucestershire

Paul Sims
Updated: 12 Jul 2021

ANOTHER chunk of a rare space rock has been dug up in a muddy field.

Experts believe it is part of a 4.5billion-year-old meteorite, thought to be the first to land in Britain in 30 years.

1The latest find was in the Cotswolds village of WoodmancoteCredit: SWNS

The latest fragment was unearthed about four miles from the first.

The yellow-green rock, containing the building blocks of life, is bigger than the original find. And it bears a likeness to a human face, some say.

It almost certainly belongs to the same meteor which was seen burning up over Gloucestershire in February.

Fragments were later found in sheep poo on a farm in Winchcombe.

The latest find was in the Cotswolds village of Woodmancote.

Chemist Derek Robson, of Loughborough, Leics, hailed his discovery as a “very special moment”.