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Bow Fiddle Rock is a natural sea arch near Portknockie on the north-eastern coast of Scotland. It is so called because it resembles the tip of a fiddle bow.
It is composed of Quartzite, a metamorphic rock which was originally quartz sandstone. This rock is part of the Cullen Quartzite formation which is seen along the coast between Buckie and Cullen. The formation is some 2,400m thick and dates from the Neoproterozoic Era, 1,000 to 539 million years ago.
These rocks were folded when the ancient continents of Laurentia and Avalonia collided during the Caledonian orogeny. They later became exposed at the surface where sea and weather eroded the structure seen today.
The rock formation is both a tourist attraction and nesting place for sea birds including herring gulls, great black-backed gulls and lesser black-backed gulls.[
So called because it resembles the tip of a fiddle bow........
Bow Fiddle Rock, Scotland, July 2022
Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie, Moray, Scotland // March 2022
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Moray Firth, Scotland // May 2023
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A Cullen Sunset is always a bit special but seeing the Sun going down right behind Bow Fiddle Rock was beautiful ...And as it got lower in the sky the colours changed dramatically and fast from blue sky to orange then this lovely pick/purple .....amazing night
Bow Fiddle Rock
Strangely despite this being less than half an hour's drive away from home, and having been past Portknockie loads of times, we hadn't visited the rock since 2023 (apart from kayaking through it last summer). Today we walked from Cullen to Portknockie and took in the view from the cliff top - the 'normal' shot is from the beach (which we did as well).
