Situated on the coast near to Corrie Village, a sandstone hosts a very important fossil artefact. The sandstone is  Permian  in age and is ca. 250 million years old and was originally deposited as wind blown sand . On a outcrop a fossil lightning strike or fulgurite can be found.  Fulgurite is from the Latin  fulgur meaning thunderbolt, or lightning and are natural hollow carrot-shaped glass tubes. Believed to be the first reported recognition of a fossilised lightning strike in the geological and scientific literature, it was described by Harland and Hacker in 1966.

The fulgurite was formed by a bolt of lightning hitting the surface of a sand dune ca. 250 Million years ago during the Permian Period, the lightning fused the sand into a glassy material, that extends into the sand like a  hollow tube. The tube was then in filled by more wind blown sand. It is estimated the loose sand was fused to make the fulgurite at approximately 1800 ^oC.  Below we see a close up of the circular entry point, which displays a classic star shaped inner. In the Geology Section of the Heritage Museum, we have a fulgurite that was formed recently in the Sahara desert during a thunderstorm. You can compare  the fossil fulgurite seen in the image below, with the recently formed fulgurite on show in the museum.