Geological excursions

View from Harside Farm towards Linhope with Ritto Hill in middle

Here are links to our reports of the geological field trips that we have made in the Cheviot Hills.  
Each excursion page provides a map and a description of our route to the geologically interesting locations in that area and what we find there. Photographs, scans and photomicrographs record the rocks we find and the minerals they contain that help to explain the origin and structure of the Cheviot Volcanic Complex.  

List of excursions in the Cheviot Hills


Bellyside Hill and Bellyside Crag

Breamish Valley and the Ainsey Burn

Brough Law

Cheviot and Woolhope Crag

Coldlaw Cairn, Shiel Cleugh and High Cantle

Dunmoor Hill

Harthope Valley

Hartside Hill and Knock Hill

Hawsen Burn, Hawsen Crags and Lambden Burn

Hedgehope Hill & Standrop Rigg

Linhope Spout






No vestige of a beginning, – no prospect of an end