When visitors to Poole Museum reach its second floor, they are greeted with displays that showcase the stories and lives of famous and influential Poolers who have shaped the coastal Dorset town. In one cabinet on this floor sits a small rock. One could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that this is a local paleontological find, considering Poole’s proximity to the home of 19th-century fossil hunter Mary Anning, one of England’s earliest and most famous paleontologists. This is not the case, however, as this rock’s discovery is more recent, but…
