To help visitors understand the geological processes which
shaped the Breckland landscape, they can view a column at High
Lodge Forest Centre, which is a representation of the deposits
to a depth of 13 metres. There is an interpretation board to
explain the artist's impression of the geological layers. In
2004, the Forestry Commission received funding from the Arts
Council England, Forest Heath District Council and the 'Arts for
All' programme of Suffolk County Council, through the Rural Arts
Lottery Programme, for an innovative arts project at High Lodge.
The sculptor, Julienne Dolphin Wilding, was chosen to carry out
the project and, after a series of public consultation days with
adults and children, she chose a geological theme. The column
was constructed around a ten tonne block of concrete and a steel
inner tube ten millimetres thick and twelve metres high welded
onto a base plate. Twenty-four 'mill stone rings' were then
mounted onto the tube and bedded in with mortar joints. Using
aggregate materials