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Hutton 300: Landscape, Rocks and Time Exhibition and Gunsgreen House
Leader: Alison Tymon
James Hutton was an early thinker in understanding the link between geology and agriculture. This unique excursion visits the James Hutton exhibition at the Hayloft Gallery, Paxton House with an afternoon building stones tour of Gunsgreen House Eyemouth.
The James Hutton exhibition at Paxton House includes examples of rocks and images from Hutton’s most famous sites, as well as information about his travels, the development of his thinking about time and geological processes, as well as his agricultural improvements while he farmed in east Berwickshire. Shop, facilities and grounds can be visited. No tours around the house that day but walks down to the River Tweed would be pleasant. Bring picnic lunch, although the small Stables café provides lunches, cakes and drinks. After lunch the trip heads to Gunsgreen House, Eyemouth to discuss the interesting building stones of Adam-designed Gunsgreen House, built 1752-1753.
Coach excursion from Edinburgh, cost £7.50 per person for exhibition entry and room hire.