This is an Earthcache, there is no physical container. You need to answer the questions below!
The Queen Victoria Monument is a large neo-Baroque monument built over the former site of Liverpool Castle. The monument was unveiled on 27 September 1906. It is a Grade II Listed structure.
There are four groups of figures around the pedestal, representing agriculture, commerce, industry and education. Among the figures representing education is a statue modelled on Sir Oliver Lodge. A large 14.5 foot statue of Queen Victoria is at the centre, centred in four groups of columns which support a baldacchino-like open dome. On top of the column groups are four allegorical figures representing justice, wisdom, charity, and peace. Atop the dome itself is a large figure representing fame.
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock formed in marine environments which contains a noticeable quantity of fossils or fossil traces.
The fossils found in in limestone can include the fossils of brachiopods, crinoid stems, gastropods, and other hard shelled mollusk remains.
Brachiopods are very common fossils, their shells sink to the sea floor when they die and can become incorporated into the sediment that eventually forms limestone.
Crinoids also known as sea lilies, are related to starfish, sea urchins, and sea urchins. They lived attached to the sea bed or to the underside of driftwood. The body consists of a long stem or stalk with the mouth, organs and five branching arms at the top. The arms are covered with small, sticky tube feet that the animal uses to catch tiny plants and animals (plankton) that drift along in the sea.
Gastropods are snail-like invertebrate (lacking a backbone) animals, and are types of mollusks. Because fossils mostly represent the hard parts of organisms, snails are the most common types of gastropod fossils. When gastropod shells dissolve in the water, only the casts and molds of the shells remain and are visible in sedimentary rocks.
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Questions
1) Look around the wall of the monument, which type of fossils do you see?
2) What size is the fossil you noticed (there are lots to choose from)
3) Take a photo with the monument, you don’t need to include your face, you could just take it with your caching name on a piece of paper