Bunker Hill, L6

Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Bunker Hill.

Robert Haag said that the stone had been found by a scrap collector among the ruins of an abandoned farmhouse.  The scrap collector had recognized it as an odd rock and contacted him.

After we purchased the stone from Bob Haag in Tucson, local friend and meteorite hunter Robert Matson was kind enough to drive the stone from Tucson to Los Angeles for us (we flew that year), and we met up at Lucerne Dry Lake to hunt and to hand-off the stone.  I don’t understand why the stone was claimed to be lost.

The stone itself is fully fusion-crusted and oriented, with three flat sides that meet at a rounded nose.  The trailing face of the stone is covered with a thick, warty fusion crust.

The surface has a few plow marks, showing that it spent some time in a field before the farmer tired of hitting it with his plow and pulled it out.