Copper mineral; specimen

Collection type: Object
Description: Copper mineral; specimen
Long description: Mineral specimen, sandy rock with potential veins of malachite. [CC [Excav. PR] 10/09/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England North-West Cheshire Macclesfield Alderley Edge
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector William Boyd Dawkins; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date
Date collected: By 1875 Oct 11
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Copper Metal, Material Lead Metal, Material Mineral
Dimensions: Thick: max 63 mm, Width: max 73 mm, Length: max 99 mm, Weight 396 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.128.18
Research and responses: See 1884.127.10.
See http://www.derbyscc.org.uk/alderley/ for details about the mines at Alderley Edge, they were used to mine copper and lead [AP 03/08/2006]
Associated publications: Boyd Dawkins, W. 1876. On the Stone Mining Tools from Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 5: 2-5 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2841358 [Dan Hicks 04/07/2013]