AS part of celebrations marking the bi-centenary of geological research in Herefordshire, a new display is on show at Hereford Museum and Art Gallery.

The Geological Society of London, the world's oldest national scientific and professional society for earth scientists, is 200 years old this year and to mark the milestone, an exhibition called Rocks Rocks will be on display in the gallery's community case.

One case will display items from the museum's own geological collection, which includes a wide range of fossils from the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, together with minerals and rocks.

In the second case, there is a display about the last Ice Age, including some weird and wonderful treasures from King Arthur's Cave at the Doward where the remains of woolly mammoth, hyena, giant elk and other such strange creatures were found.

There is also a giant lifesize replica leg bone of a mammoth in the case.

Sarah Skelton, Herefordshire Council's community heritage officer, said: "We have put together this display to mark 200 years of geological research in Herefordshire.

"We have some fantastic fossils in the museums collection thanks in part to the Hereford-born rector William Samuel Symonds (1818-1887).

"Rev Symonds amassed a large collection of fossils, some of which he then donated to the museum at Hereford," Sarah added.

Rev Symonds wrote many essays and books on the geology of the area, including Notes on the Geology of Herefordshire (1865) and Records of the Rocks (1872).