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Leuchars

Leuchars (pronounced /ˈluːxərs/ (About this soundlisten) or /ˈluːkərz/; Scottish Gaelic: Luachar "rushes") is a small town and parish near the…

St Andrews

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…

Crail Parish Church in early September

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

Crail

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…

Kirk, Anstruther Wester

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…

Anstruther

Anstruther /ˈænstrəðər/ (Locally Ainster /ˈɛnstər/ Scottish Gaelic: Ànsruthair) is a small coastal resort town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the…

Pittenweem Parish Church and Tolbooth

Pittenweem Parish Church and Tolbooth

Pittenweem

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…

St Monans Parish Church / Dominican Friary

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…

Pre-Ref Methil Church

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

Methil

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…

St Serf's Church, Dysart

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

Dysart

Dysart (/ˈdaɪzərt/ Scottish Gaelic: Dìseart) is a former town and royal burgh located on the south-east coast between Kirkcaldy and West Wemyss in…

St Fillan's Church 20100930 from the south

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

Aberdour

Aberdour (/ˌæbərˈdaʊər/ (About this soundlisten); Scots: Aiberdour,[2] Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dobhair) is a scenic and historic village on the south…

Burntisland Parish Kirk

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…

Burntisland

Burntisland (/bɜːrntˈaɪlənd/, Scots: Bruntisland) is a former royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.…

Inverkeithing Friary, Inverkeithing

Inverkeithing Friary, Queen Street, Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland

Inverkeithing

Inverkeithing (/ˌɪnvərˈkiːðɪŋ/ Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Chèitinn) is a port town and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. According to…

Culross

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…

Rock and Spindle

The Rock and Spindle geological site

Sampling Platforms, Kingcraig

Sampling the platform sections at Kingcraig point for OSL dating

Raised beach platforms, Kingcraig

Overview of raised beach platforms at Kingcraig near Elie, Fife

Electromagnetic Survey

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

Kingcraig

Kincraig Point raised beach platforms

Kinkell Raised Beach 3

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

St Fort Quarry

Aerial view of St Fort sand and gravel quarry

Esker St Fort

Aerial view of the esker at St Fort

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

kincaple OSL sampling

Tim Kinnaird OSL sampling

Kincaple East raised beaches

Kingsbarns Geological Trail

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…

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…

St Andrews Geological Trail

Geological field guide to St Andrews.

Building Stones of St Andrews

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.

Aberdour Geological Trail

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.

Holy Trinity Church St Andrews - A Testimony in Stone

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

Cellardyke Rose

Deformation feature in Carboniferous sandstones near Cellardyke, Fife

Cellardyke Rose model

Deformation structure within the Carboniferous sandstones at Cellardyke, Fife

Rock and Spindle overvivew

Overview of Kinkell Ness with Rock and Spindle

Wormit Geological Trail

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.

St Monans Geological Trail

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.

Kinghorn to Kirkcaldy Geological Trail

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…

Photosphere of Kingcraig

Raised beach platforms at Kingcraig, nr. Elie, Fife

Tollbooth, Crail

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

Memorial Fountain, Crail

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.

Tollbooth tower, Crail

Tollbooth Tower, Crail

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

Channel, Roome Bay

Channel cut into Carboniferous sandstones at Roome Bay, Crail

Arthropleura Tracks, St Andrews

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…