Stately home's doorstep meteorite a Brit big - The Sun

Researchers believe the 1.6ft-long 200lb rock dates back 30,000 years.

It was an ornament at Lake House near Wilsford-cum-Lake, Wilts.

A previous occupant of the home was thought to have brought the rock back from travels abroad.

But Open University professor Colin Pillinger is now "99.9 per cent" certain it landed here making it four times bigger than any other meteorite found in Britain.

He reckons it was in a deep freeze for 20,000 years and that druids may have used it to build a chalk mound.

Adrian Green of the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, which is to display the rock, said: "It's colossal. It'd take four people to lift it."