2020
NY7870 : Scarp-Dip scenery north of Broomlee Lough
taken 3 years ago, near to Cragend [other Features], Northumberland, Great Britain
Scarp-Dip scenery north of Broomlee Lough
The Lower Carboniferous strata hereabouts dips gently south to the south south east at 12-16° resulting in scenery which repeats, in a subdued form, the great cuesta of the Whin Sill followed by Hadrian's Wall 1.4 kilometres to the south. Whilst not as tough as the quartz-dolerite intrusion, the sandstones and limestones are more resistant than the shales in between and form upstanding ridges with gentle slopes in the direction of the dip and scarp slopes facing north. The long tack to East Hotbank follows the foot of one such scarp and over the gap between Queen's Crags and Nanny's Hill. Water is confined between the ridges and forms shallow loughs, extensive bogs and slow flowing streams draining WSW to eventually find a way through the cuesta of the Whin Sill as Haltwhistle Burn some 8 km behind the photographer. The Pennine Way heads, squelchily, northwards towards Wark Forest. The path we are on is a variant heading to the same place and is certainly no drier.
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