Village sculpture a dung deal
A village plans to put up a £10,000 sculpture of a pile of dung to celebrate its industrial heritage.
The sculpture will be erected on the village green in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, to mark the work of 19th-century coprolite miners, who dug up fossilised dung for use as fertiliser.
It will feature four bronze dung globules the size of large beach balls sitting on a 3ft-high brick plinth, and should be in place later this year. South Cambridgeshire District Council is paying half the cost - villagers have raised the rest.
A village plans to put up a £10,000 sculpture of a pile of dung to celebrate its industrial heritage.
The sculpture will be erected on the village green in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, to mark the work of 19th-century coprolite miners, who dug up fossilised dung for use as fertiliser.
It will feature four bronze dung globules the size of large beach balls sitting on a 3ft-high brick plinth, and should be in place later this year. South Cambridgeshire District Council is paying half the cost - villagers have raised the rest.
