Doug Shepherd's photos with the keyword: Cliff

Roulston Scar & Hood Hill with haze over the Vale of York

Roulston Scar (also know as Sutton Bank) is a high point on the Hambleton Hills and the North Yorkshire Moors with extensive views over the Vale of York. It is the site of one of the most important prehistoric monuments in the region: a massive Iron Age hillfort, constructed around 400 BC. Because it faces the prevailing westerly winds, Sutton Bank has been used for the sport of gliding since the early 1930s The Yorkshire Gliding Club opened in 1934 and is based at the top of the hill. Tug launch of a glider approaching the cliff edge of Raulston Scar, indicated here by the tops of the shrubs.

Best enlarged The view is towards Staffin slipway from Staffin beach. It was in this area (An Corran) that local resident found a slab bearing a dinosaur track, probably made by a small ornithopod. Experts subsequently found more dinosaur prints of up to 50 cm, the largest found in Scotland, made by a creature similar to Megalosaurus. At about 160 million years old they are the youngest dinosaur remains to be found in Scotland. A Mesolithic hunter-gatherer site dating to the 7th millennium BC at An Corran is one of the oldest archaeological sites in Scotland. Its occupation is probably linked to that of the rock shelter at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross.