Coastal Erosion

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An undercut notch may be accompanied by a distinct ledge or short platform.


The platform around this promontory has a spread of ‘toes’. Across the embayment can be seen a recent blocky fall.


Instead of a platform, a slope.


Here, the beach sand within an embayment is being eroded to a lower level to reveal a new clay platform.

This example of exfoliation perhaps demonstrates that the drying out of material is also an agent of erosion.


An erratic seems to defy gravity. Almost all the stones and pebbles seen emerging from the till share a common alignment.


Plucked from the Cretaceous bedrock further north and crushed by glacial ice, chalk sometimes shows in the cliffs as threads or ‘streamers’.


Wartime concrete blocks on the beach. In the middle distance, a promontory is topped by what look like horns.


A tumbled pillbox.


The cliffs are convenient for fly-tipping. Fortunately, the activity is not widespread.


A seat from which to command the waves maybe, or to take in a view of the Easington gas terminal complex.


Farming to the very edge. Presumably, there was a little more cliff when the crop was planted.


The last days of Ringborough Farm. Believed to have been built in the 1770s, the farmhouse was required to be demolished before going over the cliff. Ringborough (the name taken from a village lost to the sea) was chosen for the construction of an artillery battery during the Second World War. All the military structures, including a tower which was something of a local landmark, have succumbed (stages of loss).


Commercial opportunity (ideal for the shorter term?) at Skipsea.


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