Lot 77
Strawberry Fields (provisional)
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection Part III
Auction: 20 August 2013 at 15:00 BST
£1,375
Description
individual
Dimensions
190.15g
Footnote
Strawberry Fields (prov.) (Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom) H5 (stone) - found June 2011
The United Kingdom's latest meteorite discovery.
Found by Rob Elliott while searching for remnants of the Perth 1830 meteorite in Perthshire, Scotland.
This new find has recently been classified as an H5 by Glasgow University. Precise find location details have not yet been released as the finder wishes to continue searching the strewnfield in secrecy. The Strawberry Fields name will remain provisional until such time as the analysis and classification data is submitted to the Meteoritical Society.