More than 10,000 coins that visitors wedged into the rocks of Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway have been extracted as conservation teams work to protect the World Heritage Site from further damage, Reuters reports. The coins came from visitors from the UK, Europe, the US, the Far East and other parts of the world.
Tourists have pushed or hammered coins into cracks and joints between the Causeway’s famous basalt columns as a way of leaving behind a token from their visit. But the National Trust, which cares for the site, says the practice has started damaging the rocks themselves.
