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• 1) 25" OS Kincardineshire IV.11 1896 is at variance with the namebook. The two caves indicated are the wrong way round - in fact this one, the longer one, is southernmost. See photo 3 which perhaps shows why.
• 2) OS namebook Kincardineshire, Nigg Parish, p 52 description of 'Black Cove'
• Geology of the Souter Head Subvolcanic Complex 2020 by C. M. Rice and D. F. Mark, 11 May 20. This is something of an update on the current (May 23) BGS overlay. This paper includes a marked up photo similar to photo 3 with some of the orange/pink layers marked G (Bunstane granite).
• Photo 1 Black Cove (1) and (2) in the cliffs.
• Photo 2 Black Cove (1) and (2) from closer to. This cave is the right one.
• Photo 3 view of Black Cove (1) and (2) from the headland immediately north. By Iain Greig 17/4/23. Black Cove (2) looks much the larger from here.
• Photo 4 from close to

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