Ventifacted limestone clasts and ventifacted outcrops of both limestone and quartz-dolerite are present on the coast of Northumberland at Holy Island and Budle Point respectively. Clasts display well-developed facets while outcrops are grooved, fluted, facetted and polished. Facet and groove orientations suggest development was in association with westerly and northwesterly winds. The abrasive agent is most likely to have been sand. Age and length of time over which ventifact formation occurred is not known with certainty. Outcrops may have gained their features over the last 15–13 ka, following removal of glacier ice, under both periglacial and temperate climatic conditions; the clasts are probably Holocene storm beach deposits and facet development may relate to sand movements linked to aeolian dune construction. At both locations, present-day sand movements may be sufficient to maintain ventifact sculpture.