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dip of 50 degrees, and about 200 yards from the gate we 

 come on a limestone with a dip of 60°. Between this and 

 the pier 5 or 6 thin limestones occur, all dipping eastward, 

 but at a lower angle ; and at the back of the pier we find 

 the Eelwell Limestone of Lowick. Thus we have here 

 representatives of the beds from about half way between 

 the Wood End and Oxford Limestones up to the Eelwell 

 Limestone, or about 500 feet of strata. The high dips 

 described are a continuation of those to be noticed along 

 the Northumberland coast from Scremerston Sea Houses to 

 Spital. 



Somewhere near the pier house there would seem to be 

 a fault trending north-west, and throwing up to the north, 

 for we find the Eelwell Limestone repeated in a synclinal ; 

 and 200 yards north of the house an east and west dyke 

 throws up the beds again, and we again find the Eelwell 

 Limestone at the Bucket rocks. North of this a finelj' 

 marked dome or anticline at the Ladies' Skerrs is a very 

 conspicuous object from the cliff top; the concentric curves 

 are so regular as to have caused several people to imagine 

 this a volcano, but of course there is no volcanic material 

 here. At the Fisherman's Haven we again find the Eelwell 

 Limestone in a synclinal trough, which is cut off half way 

 between the Haven and Sharper Head by a large fault 

 trending nearly east-south-east. It is well to notice that 

 both above and below the Eelwell Limestone a thin lime- 

 stone is found about 25 feet distant. From this account it 

 will be seen that the Eelwell Limestone is observed four 

 times over on this coast. 



The fault south of Sharper Head, previously mentioned, 

 has probably a downthrow south of about 300 feet. On 

 the north side of it we find a thick mass of sandstone lying 

 nearly flat, and capped at the cliff top at Sharper Head by 

 the Oxford Limestone. The sandstone continues to the south 

 side of the bay of the Burgess' Cave, where it is cut off 

 by another large fault running north-east. This fault has 

 probably a throw of as much as 300 feet to the south. 



We now come upon a set of beds very Tuedian like in 

 character, as their sandstones are associated with grey, 

 greenish, and red shales, and among these is a band of 



