Valtos

Settlement in Inverness-shire

Scotland

Valtos

View south by Mealt Waterfall Credit: Chris Morgan

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Valtos Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 57.593085/-6.1601229 or Grid Reference NG5163. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

View south by Mealt Waterfall

Chris Morgan

Coastline south of Mealt

The basalt sea-cliffs illuminated by the rising sun.

John Allan

Milkwort (Polygala sp)

Milkwort is generally a deep blue colour, but occasionally you come across a plant with pink flowers.

Anne Burgess

Cul nan Cnoc

The foreground is in this square, but the more interesting linear feature is in the next square. It is a fault line separating the low-lying Lealt Shale from a Palaeogene lava plateau.

Anne Burgess

Unnamed Burn at Cul nan Cnoc

The burn has carved a gorge in the soft Lealt Shale.

Anne Burgess

The Descent to Rubha nam Brathairean

The view from the path as one descends to the shore. Rubha nam Brathairean ('headland of the brothers') is the furthest point of land.

Anne Burgess

Port Earlish

Although named as a port, the cobble beach here is not at all sheltered from the north and east.

Anne Burgess

Memorial Stone

The other side of the stone in the foreground bears a Caithness flagstone plaque with a Gaelic inscription referring to the brothers after whom the 'Brothers' Headland' is presumably named.

Anne Burgess

Rock at Port Earlish

The flat part is Jurassic limestone and the dark rock nearest the camera is a basaltic dyke. At low tide it must give some shelter to the beach at Port Earlish.

Anne Burgess

Stone Parcels

We found several of these along the shore, each one embroidered with the name of a MacLeod girl. I wonder who created them and why?

Anne Burgess

Lagoon and Dyke

The flat rock in the foreground is Jurassic, and the Palaeogene dyke beyond it, sculpted by erosion into a shape like a stack of leaning cards, almost encloses a small lagoon.

Anne Burgess

A Gap with a View

Through the gap in the lava flow there is a glimpse of the distant Kilt Rock. This is formed of a thick lava flow on top of a shale unit, with a sill at sea level.

Anne Burgess

Lava and a Lagoon

The lagoon has formed where overlying lava has been eroded out, leaving the flat Jurassic limestone. Cul nan Cnoc is at the top of the slope in the distance.

Anne Burgess

Lava on Limestone

At this point a thick lava flow overlies thinly bedded limestones of the Lealt Shale Formation.

Anne Burgess

Lealt Shale and Lava

At this point a thick lava flow overlies thinly bedded limestones of the Lealt Shale Formation.

Anne Burgess

Jurassic Limestone

This flat platform is limestone of the Lealt Shale Formation. It contains little pods of fossil debris such as bone fragments.

Anne Burgess

Lava on Lealt Limestone

From a bit further away the difference between the overlying lava and underlying sediment is even more marked.

Anne Burgess

Lava Flow

In the middle of the rock you can see where the lava has filled in a hollow in the underlying rock, and the cracks formed as it colled radiate out from the lowest point of the hollow, almost like a fan.

Anne Burgess

Show me another place!

Valtos is located at Grid Ref: NG5163 (Lat: 57.593085, Lng: -6.1601229)

Unitary Authority: Highland

Police Authority: Highlands and Islands

Also known as: Bhaltos