Sand Pit, Scotstown
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Image: © Richard Sutcliffe Taken: 2 Nov 1974
Geology students from the University of Aberdeen visiting what was a working quarry when the photograph was taken in 1974. The sands and gravels are bedded and are of Pleistocene age.