The Braefoot Outer Sill, Fife - Part II

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I. Introduction. In a former paper (1932,1 p. 342) the writers discussed the development of the Braefoot Outer Sill at the Braefoot Promontory. The present communication deals with other parts of the sill as it is followed, first round the Aberdour anticline and secondly round the Dalgety Bay syncline. Between the Braefoot Plantation and the farm of Bouprie good exposures on the western limb of the anticline are met with in the Temple Plantation, in the Skellies Plantation and in the Birkhill Wood Railway Cutting and the adjacent quarry. On the eastern limb of the anticline the sill forms the headland of Hallcraig or Hawk Crag. In its continuation round the Dalgety Bay syncline it makes the islands of the Long Craig and the Haystack and the two islets2 off Braefoot Point; it reappears on the western shore of Dalgety Bay and is seen also in the Old Harbour at Donibristle House. (See Map, Plate VIII.) II. Field Characters and Distribution of Rock Types. The igneous rocks in the vicinity of Aberdour Harbour have been described by many observers. Among the earlier writers may be mentioned R. J. Hay Cunningham (1838, p. 127), Charles Maclaren (1839, p. 109), E. Stecher (1887, p. 176 and 1888, p. 160), Sir A. Geikie (1900, p. 83) and J. G. Goodchild (1904, p. 205). In these descriptions the Outer and Inner sills at Aberdour Harbour are not separated. The term ‶Hawk Crag″ is usually applied both to the prominent headland of Hallcraig Point (the

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