Abstract
The origin of fine specimens of 'pencil ore' hematite, in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London, labelled 'Bellingham, Northumberland', has long been enigmatic. Whereas hematite ores are unknown, and unlikely, in the geological setting of the sedimentary ores which were the basis for the local iron smelting industry, several very large blocks of spectacular 'kidney ore' and 'pencil ore' hematite have long been prominent in an ornamental garden at Bellingham, where they prompted fruitless prospecting activity in the 1930s. This investigation has traced the true west Cumbrian origin of these specimens.
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