Arthur's Seat
Taken from Blackford Hill.
Arthur’s Seat is the main peak of the group of hills which form most of Holyrood Park, a remarkably wild piece of highland landscape in the centre of the city of Edinburgh, about a mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle.
Like the castle rock on which Edinburgh Castle is built, it was formed by an extinct volcano system of Carboniferous age (approximately 350 million years old), which was eroded by a glacier moving from west to east during the Quaternary, exposing rocky crags to the west and leaving a tail of material swept to the east. This is how the Salisbury Crags formed and became basalt cliffs between Arthur’s Seat and the city centre. From some angles, Arthur’s Seat resembles a sleeping lion. Two of the several extinct vents make up the ‘lions head’ and the ‘lions haunch’.
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tomg, 2 months ago
Great view. I have never been up Blackford Hill.
Gwenda Oxley, 2 months ago
A stunning view and capture!!