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SCAAT CRAIG Site of Special Scientific Interest SITE SCAAT CRAIG Site of Special Scientific Interest SITE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT Site code: 1409 Address: 32 Reidhaven Street, Elgin, Moray IV30 1QH Tel: 01343 541551 email: [email protected] Purpose This is a public statement prepared by SNH for owners and occupiers of the SSSI. It outlines the reasons it is designated as an SSSI and provides guidance on how its special natural features should be conserved or enhanced. This statement does not affect or form part of the statutory notification and does not remove the need to apply for consent for operations requiring consent. We welcome your views on this statement. Description of the site Scaat Craig SSSI encompasses a 700m stretch of the Longmorn Burn. Exposures of loosely consolidated sediments of sandstone and conglomerate along the stream banks have yielded a rich and unusual fossil fauna of well preserved bone fragments, teeth and fish scales. The sediments were formed under the semi-arid conditions about 380 million years ago during the Devonian geological period when this site was probably part of lake and river systems inhabited by fauna typical of that time. Discovered in about 1826, Scaat Craig was one of the first fossil-fish sites to be found in the Moray Firth area. Since several fish species were discovered first at Scaat Craig, it is known as the ‘type locality’ for those species, three of which are known only from this site. Recent work on some of the bones indicates that these are more akin to an amphibian than a fish and therefore the site is very valuable to understanding amphibian and therefore land animal evolution. Scaat Craig is also historically important for the contribution the fossil discoveries have made to the history of geology, with items from the site appearing in the Elgin and British Museums. A comprehensive description of the interest of Scaat Craig can be found in SNH’s Earth Science Site Documentation Series (MacFadyen 1993). Natural Features of Feature Condition (date monitored) Scaat Craig SSSI Silurian-Devonian Chordata Favourable Maintained (October 2007) Page 1 of 2 A506068.doc Site condition monitoring was last carried in 2007. The site was in favourable condition as the extent of the exposures and accessibility were being maintained. Past and present management The SSSI is a fairly densely vegetated small valley which is quite difficult to access. There is no particular use or management of the site. Objectives for management (and key factors influencing the condition of natural features) We wish to work with the owners and occupiers to protect the site and to maintain and where necessary enhance its features of special interest. SNH aims to carry out site survey, monitoring and research as appropriate, to increase our knowledge and understanding of the site and its natural features. 1. To maintain the extent of exposures and access to the site and/or exposures The banks of Longmorn Burn are well vegetated and exposures are vulnerable to being hidden by curtains of vegetation such as ivy. The vegetation which both obscures and protects the exposures, can be carefully removed if necessary, to re- expose the fossil bearing sediments. Ideally, more permanent vegetation such as scrub and trees which could both limit access and damage the sediments should be controlled whilst in sapling stage. 2. To develop research and educational use of the site The primary aim of site management is to preserve the sediments for future research, teaching and education. There is only a limited amount of rock exposure at the site; the sandstone and conglomerate sediments are extremely friable and the fossils are very brittle, fossil collecting should be sparing. Responsible and genuine researchers should be permitted to visit the site and collectors should only take fossils from the detritus at the base of exposures. It is important that the Scottish Fossil Code should be adhered to. Date last reviewed: 18 May 2011. Page 2 of 2 A506068.doc .
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