Explore Museum Gardens, to find The Story of the Map this large map made of pebbles behind Over 200 years ago, William Smith was working as FREE and OPEN DAILY the ruined Abbey. a canal engineer. He realised that his work cutting It was made by artist, through the earth had helped him to understand Janette Ireland, to how the rocks had been formed. He could see they represent the were made of different layers, or strata, a bit like part of a famous slices of bread on a plate. A Map You geological map, made The slices had been tipped up in 1815 by a man called (and bent and twisted a bit), so that William Smith. Can Walk On when William walked across the William wanted to country – and he did a lot of walking show which rocks were – he was often walking over just under the ground. the edges of He used different colours to show the different the slices. rocks, but Janette has used different pebbles. William knew that what he had found out meant You can walk on the map and see many he could tell people who owned land if they might interesting things. have valuable rocks underneath - especially coal, which was very important then. He made the map Look inside for clues... to show all this.

York Museum Gardens Visitor Information Have you visited Open Daily – FREE ADMISSION the museum? Summer: 7.30am - 8pm Winter: 7.30am – 6pm There is a huge copy Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve: 7.30am – 4pm Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day: Closed of the famous map in the , www.ypsyork.org as well as many interesting fossils. www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk Why not go in and see what you can find?

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20109 YMT YPS Mosaic Map Leaflet (Children).indd 1 24/11/2015 15:29 Find the How can you tell which part is sea, and which The Pointer. The map is lined up so is land? (Look for the waves.) this points North on the map and on “Hidden Treasures” the ground as well. The line that the in the map Look at the shape of Yorkshire – the counties pointer takes across the map is called the round it are shown in brown, because this map Greenwich Meridian. You can find out shows only Yorkshire rocks. Each type of rock has about this on the internet. its own pebbles. Look at the scales showing distances. The The artist has put fossils in the map. black one shows a total length of 50 Km. You Some are real ones, and others made of can put your foot against it, and see how pebbles. This is because William Smith had far your foot represents on the map (it will learned that each layer had its own special probably be about 10km). You can use that fossils, and he used that to recognise which to find the distances between towns. layer was which.

Can you find all the rivers? Each is made of 50km There are also fossil patterns in each small grey stones. The names are spelled the 30m of the four corners – fossil ferns, curly old way – River Ure is spelled Yore. You can ammonites, crinoids and round sea-urchins. follow each one from its starting point to the Can you work out which is which? sea. See how many of them join up to form the River Humber. The names William Smith called the rocks are shown by labels set in a ring How many towns can you see? York has going round the map – made of the pebbles its own special symbol, showing the Minster. used to represent them. Have you seen this famous church? It is not far from here. There are large pieces of real rocks in the flower borders, next to strips of pebbles, You can find mini-millstones. Large ones so it is easy to see which pebbles represent were made from the rocks here, and used to which rocks. See if you can match them up grind corn. Round this part of the map, there is a diagram with their names. showing a cross-section of Yorkshire, so you can The small black squares show where there see how the rock layers are tipped up. Can you see were coal mines. How many can you find? the line showing sea-level?

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