- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Lenticular shaped iron pyrite and malachite stone "Thunderbolt". Carried by Cornish miners for luck. [SM 23/03/2011]
- Geographical reference
- England Cornwall
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lovett
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1911
- Date collected
- 1911
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Pyrite Stone, Material Malachite Stone, Process Ground
- Dimensions
- Diameter 32 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.817 Other numbers: A 132502 J AM C R 12563/ 1936
1985.51.817
Lenticular shaped iron pyrite and malachite stone "Thunderbolt". Carried by Cornish miners for luck. [SM 23/03/2011]
1985.51.817
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