In recent decades, visitors have pushed thousands of coins into fissures in the rocks. The gesture is "a token of love or luck", according to Cliff Henry, the causeway's nature engagement officer. But ...

Now authorities are urging tourists to keep their coins in their pockets to preserve the spectacular landscape. Some 40,000 columns mark the causeway, Northern Ireland's first UNESCO World Heritage ...

Tourists urged to keep coins in their pockets to preserve spectacular landscape National Trust's Nature Engagement Officer, Cliff Henry, holds coins that were left by tourists in the cracks of the ...

BUSHMILLS, United Kingdom – Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year, but their habit of wedging tiny coins in cracks between the rocks – to bring love or luck – ...

Northern Ireland's Giant Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of wedging tiny coins in cracks between the rocks -- to bring love or luck -- is damaging the world-famous ...

Northern Ireland is home to the Giant’s Causeway, a collection of about 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns that protrude from the North Atlantic Ocean and lead up to the foot of a cliff. The UNESCO World ...

Many of the coins are from the United Kingom, but some are from as far away as the United States and Asia. National Trust via Facebook Small coins are causing giant problems at one of Northern Ireland ...

RARE coins you might be carrying in your wallet could fetch prices of more than £1,000. If you have stashes of loose change lying around, it's worth checking to see if any of these rare finds are ...

Tourists risk destroying Northern Ireland’s iconic Giant’s Causeway rocks by jamming coins between them, experts warned. National Trust engagement officer Dr Cliff Henry said the discarded tender ...

Northern Ireland’s World Heritage Site is being damaged by visitors leaving coins in the cracks of the famous stones. Scores of coins have been left wedged into the cracks of the basalt rock columns ...