The Geography Department
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The Bawdsey Flags
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A Fall of Eagles July 30 2005
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The new mini-bay from the last of the rip-rap protecting the Martello Tower. |
The beach and pill-boxes from the same point. |
The remaining yellow flags, and the large falls of cliff beyond. |
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What cannot be seen from the web-cam is the erosion occurring beneath the red flag; the scene is almost free from any recent falls and is well scoured by the tide. |
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The rip rap and pillboxes connect to show a former coastline. |
The muddy mess of the spring is, at last, beginning to grass over. |
Blocks of Red Crag slipping away over the basement clay. |
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Five remaining yellow flags and the edge of the cultivated area. |
In the 2004-5 seasons several metres have been lost since planting; no farmer would risk his machines nearer than 2-3 metres from the edge, but here the loss bites into rows that have been harvested the week before! |
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Two views of the cliff-top. On the left the growing wheat was unable to be cut even by the combine's wide cutter head; erosion has already encroached on the rows that were cut!
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The right-hand photo shows the much-cracked path, still relatively intact.
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A trio of cliff-profile photos. The centre slip is relatively clean, but on either side are photos of crag, clay and vegetation jumbled together beneath recent collapses. |
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The strand lines of the shingle bank, just to the south of the flags, show up well, as does the severe slope. |
A general arrangement photo of the beach, shingle bank and cliffs. Old defences have clearly been removed and the supports left to rot. |
Rotting also are the ribs of old groynes, behind which scene the cliff and Martello Tower preside. |
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The actively eroding cliff face in the centre of photo 363 is extending southwards. The new erosion site here shows as a fall of heavily vegetated slope - not cliff ... although it will be now! |
A major cliff fall spreads over the beach. The thick pole is a mystery (too thick for the flags) but could be from a fence. |
Buried concrete block on the beach and the fasted eroding cliff in the background - see next photo for a zoom-in. |
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A slab has been removed from this section of cliff. |
Another cliff fall is soon attracting the attention of the high tide. |
A thinning line of wheat stalks against the sky. |
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Just south of the yellow flags, this area has seen most recent erosional activity. |
Also seen in photo 357 this mini-block is about to fall. |
The 'H' in frightful occupies a precarious position! |
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More cliff falls near the last remaining red flag. |
With two of the message balls offshore, I wonder if the balloons are more art! |
Out of sight of the webcam the erosion continues - in this case trying to outflank the rip rap. |
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The last red flag has a little in hand; the pole hole from the penultimate flag is still intact!
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