[meteorite-list] Meteorite hunting in the UK...

From: Steve Schoner <steve_schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:36 2004
Message-ID: <20030611150500.58767.qmail_at_web12701.mail.yahoo.com>

--- Stuart Forbes <stuart.forbes_at_blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
> > If I were to look in the UK.... This may sound
> funny
> > to some, but think about it.... Hadrian's Wall.
> >
> > Lots of rocks, hand gathered 2,000 years ago, and
> > piled from coast to coast.
>
> I'm not so sure that taking rocks from a historical
> landmark is such a good
> idea! Fortunately, in Scotland we have thousands of
> walls like it, the "dry
> staine dikes" that most outdoor walls in the
> Scottish Highlands are made of.
> They're just walls made of piles of stones without
> anything to hold them
> together. Its very difficult to build a good one,
> but there seem to be
> plenty of people in the Highlands good enough at it,
> because they're all
> over the place. I'm always scanning them for black
> rocks when I'm out
> hillwalking, so far without success.
>
> I've no idea if they're as common in England or
> Wales though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stuart Forbes
> Edinburgh, Scotland
>


Oh, I would never advocate breaking down a historic
landmark... That is why I qualified the remark with
proper permits required.

An exavation grant perhaps with a Museum?
A long shot of course.

I read that in Hadrian's Wall, there are sections that
are lose piles of rock.

And those other stone walls that you mention... Yes,
they would be excellent. But use a good metal
detector, one that can sort our stone meteorites from
the sedimentary rocks that are probably common to the
UK.

But in the case of stone wall meteorite collections, I
would imagine that solid irons, or stony irons would
be rare if non existent. These would have stood out
and been long since smelted, or used for other things
than mere stones for a wall.

Steve Schoner/AMS

Steve Schoner

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