At some point in the 1750s, a jeweller-apprentice by the name Jacob Hässelgren found an erratic bouldernext to the Eskilstuna country road in the neighbourhood of Ärla in Södermanland. It contained a deep bluemass of lazulite, at the time an unknown mineral. Pieces of the find eventually reached Daniel Tilas, TorbernBergman and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ˗ renowned natural scientists in Sweden ˗ but no detailed studies of thematerial seem to have been carried out by them. Two fragments of the original boulder are still preserved,and a recent examination shows them to consist of mainly lazulite, andalusite, quartz, pyrophyllite, augeliteand svanbergite. The average composition of lazulite is Mg_0.700Fe²⁺_0.261Mn_0.003Al_1.954Fe³⁺_0.017 P_2.031O₈(OH)₂.The mineral assemblage is characteristic of known occurrences of phosphate-Al silicate-quartz appearingalong the Protogine Zone in southern Sweden. Transportation of the boulder from its source rock, likely tobe located somewhere along the Protogine Zone, ought to have occurred in connection with the developmentof the Fennoscandian ice sheet during the final Weichselian deglaciation, and the material waspossibly discharged from floating ice on the Yoldia Sea.