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Leuchars (pronounced /ˈluːxərs/ (About this soundlisten) or /ˈluːkərz/; Scottish Gaelic: Luachar "rushes") is a small town and parish near the north-east coast of Fife in Scotland. The civil parish has a population of 5,754 (in 2011) [1] and an area…

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St Andrews (Latin: S. Andrea(s); Scots: Saunt Aundraes; Scottish Gaelic: Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16 kilometres) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 kilometres) northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a…

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Crail Parish Church in early September. This is a photo of listed building number 23244.

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Crail Scottish Gaelic: (Cathair Aile) is a former royal burgh, parish and community council area (Royal Burgh of Crail and District) in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Kirk, Anstruther Wester This fine old Kirk is now rather dilapidated and shored up in places. I suppose it's not in bad shape for something that has stood here for 764 years to date, well parts of it anyway, much of it was changed in a major…

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Anstruther /ˈænstrəðər/ (Locally Ainster /ˈɛnstər/ Scottish Gaelic: Ànsruthair) is a small coastal resort town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the north-shore of the Firth of Forth[7] and 9 mi (14 km) south-southeast of St Andrews. The town comprises…

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Pittenweem Parish Church and Tolbooth

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Pittenweem (/ˌpɪtənˈwiːm/) is a fishing village and civil parish in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,747.

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St Monans Parish Church has a lengthy history of Christian worship. The site may have been a place of pilgrimage long before the construction of the current church during the High Middle Ages. In the 1360s King David II had a fragment of an arrow…

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The site of the pre-Reformation Methil Parish Church, now part of Methilmill Cemetery.

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Methil (Scottish Gaelic: Meadhchill)[2] is an eastern coastal town in Scotland. It was first recorded as "Methkil" in 1207, and belonged to the Bishop of St Andrews. Two Bronze Age cemeteries have been discovered which date the settlement as over…

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Dysart, Panhall, Shore Road, St Serf's Church

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Dysart (/ˈdaɪzərt/ Scottish Gaelic: Dìseart) is a former town and royal burgh located on the south-east coast between Kirkcaldy and West Wemyss in Fife. The town is now considered to be a suburb of Kirkcaldy. Dysart was once part of a wider estate…

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St Fillan's Church, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. View from the south.

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Aberdour (/ˌæbərˈdaʊər/ (About this soundlisten); Scots: Aiberdour,[2] Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dobhair) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland. It is on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, looking south to the island…

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Dating from 1592, St. Columba's is the oldest pre-Reformation kirk still in use. In 1601, it was the venue of the General Assembly, held in the presence of King James VI, at which the need for a new translation of the Bible was suggested. The idea…

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Burntisland (/bɜːrntˈaɪlənd/, Scots: Bruntisland) is a former royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 6,269.

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Inverkeithing Friary, Queen Street, Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland

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Inverkeithing (/ˌɪnvərˈkiːðɪŋ/ Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Chèitinn) is a port town and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. According to 2016 population estimates, the town has a population of 4,890, while the civil parish was reported to…

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Culross (/ˈkurəs/) (Scottish Gaelic: Cuileann Ros, 'holly point or promontory') is a village and former royal burgh, and parish, in Fife, Scotland.

Early Christian hand-bell formerly kept and used in St Fillan’s Church, Struan (near Blair Atholl), Perthshire, and possibly associated with that place since the eighth century. It is made of wrought iron, coated in bronze. From the collection of…

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The Rock and Spindle geological site

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Sampling the platform sections at Kingcraig point for OSL dating

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Overview of raised beach platforms at Kingcraig near Elie, Fife

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Conducting electromagnetic surveying on the raised beaches at Kingcraig using a Geonics EM38

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Kincraig Point raised beach platforms

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360 photosphere on the 4m raised beach to east of Kinkell Braes

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Aerial view of St Fort sand and gravel quarry

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Aerial view of the esker at St Fort

St Fort disused sand and gravel quarry on the Wormit esker.

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Tim Kinnaird OSL sampling

Kincaple East raised beaches

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Geological field guide to Kingsbarns Beach.

Kingsbarns has a variety of different fossils including 330 million year old millipede tracks. There are also fossilised shells and the imprints of ancient roots of trees called Lepidodendron which grew in Fife during the Carboniferous era.

The Rock and Spindle is an ancient volcanic vent, and it has an excellent example of radial columnar jointing (it looks like spokes of a wheel) due to the way the magma cooled. The rock just to the north of the Rock and Spindle is believed to be a…

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Geological field guide to St Andrews.

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A guide to the stones used to build St Andrews.

A walking guide to the stones that St Andrews is built with.

The rock at Crail is largely Carboniferous Sandstone and Shale, but a variety of types of rock have been used to build the village.

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A walking trail to see the geology of Aberdour.

At Aberdour the country rock (carboniferous sandstone) has been intruded by younger magma. There are also good examples of faulting and cross bedding.

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A guide to the different types of stone used to build Holy Trinity Church.

Holy Trinity Church features many interesting types of stone, including a beautiful alabaster and marble pulpit.

Carboniferous volcanic vent, Kinkell Ness has at its centre the Rock and Spindle

Bed of fossil tree (Lepidodendron) stumps in Carboniferous sequence near Cellardyke, Fife

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Deformation feature in Carboniferous sandstones near Cellardyke, Fife

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Deformation structure within the Carboniferous sandstones at Cellardyke, Fife

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Overview of Kinkell Ness with Rock and Spindle

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A walking trail to see the geology of Wormit.

At Wormit there is a wide variety of geology including lava flows, river conglomerates, intrusive rhyolite and glacial erratics.

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A walking trail to see the Geology of St Monans.

St Monans has a number of fossils including corals and also a coal seam. The rocks here have been folded and tilted since they were deposited.

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A walking trail to see the Geology between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy.

This area between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy has some pillow basalts as well as fossilised corals and crinoids.

This bay doesn’t actually have rubies, it’s named after the tiny red garnets in the sand which look a bit like rubies to the untrained eye. You might find some if you get down on your hands and knees sift through the sand.

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Raised beach platforms at Kingcraig, nr. Elie, Fife

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The Tolbooth built in 1598 and tower, rebuilt in 1776 contain well cut blocks of both local sandstone (buff-coloured) and material from Locharbriggs Quarry, Dumfries (dark red sandstone)

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The Memorial Fountain was built in 1897 and is dedicated to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. It is built of both grey and red granite.

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Tollbooth Tower, Crail

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The Tolbooth built in 1598 and tower, rebuilt in 1776 contain well cut blocks of both local sandstone (buff-coloured) and material from Locharbriggs Quarry, Dumfries (dark red sandstone)

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Channel cut into Carboniferous sandstones at Roome Bay, Crail

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Arthropleura tracks near St Andrews, a cast of them can be seen in MUSA, the Scores, St Andrews

All Saints’ Church originally served the St Andrews fishing community (which was traditionally focused around the east end of town). In 1903 a small iron mission church was established, and in 1907 a stone chancel was added. Following the First World…
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