 However, in reality it is just a slight rise on the long southern ridge of Dove Crag with only about five metres of prominence which prevents it even qualifying as a “Nuttall”; nevertheless both Alfred Wainwright and Bill Birkett mention the fell in their books on the Lakeland Fells.The crest of the ridge consists of the volcaniclastic laminated claystone and siltstone of the Esk Pike Formation.Beneath is the dacitic welded lapilli-tuff of the Lincomb Tarns Formation.