Day: 22 June 2022
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Salisbury Crags
A line of crags of igneous rock formed 342 million years ago, when lava erupted at Arthur’s Seat through the underlying sedimentary rock. The crags are famous in the world of geology because it is where James Hutton (1726 – 1797), ‘the father of modern geology‘, concluded that the magma intruding into the existing rock…
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WW1 Gun Battery
I came across a ghostly complex of forgotten concrete structures whilst wandering through Dalmeny Park on the coast of the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh. It turns they are part of a gun battery built during the First World War to protect the Firth with its naval shipyards. Work on this battery actually began before…