For detective Searchfield.

This is on the headland between West Bay and Eype.










Any idea what it is Zig?

 

Looks like a Lime Kiln Dai, but that headland is mainly Fullers Earth, used in Cloth manufacture so i'll get me book & see if it's in there............

 

For once I' back more quickly than (You know who)

Looks like a lime burning kiln to me - we have many here in Cleveland & N. Yorkshire.

Is the soil in your area particularly acid? - could be the annswer.

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Well, I really tought I had beaten you this time Ziggy, - Is there an Olympic Event in answering Dai's questions, if so I'm only a Bronze --

 

Yep, got the exact same picture as the top one, small Limekiln with a draw arch of conical form.

 

:D Lol Adam, nearly a photo finish there:D To be fair, the book was on the shelf behind me:D

 

Oh, and I do work in the Lime Mortar business too.

 

Well, OK a Silver !!

 

Cheers both, thank you for your quick replies. Though you have probably killed the thread stone dead. A view from the headland.

 

Oh i'm sure we can keep it going a bit longer.

The've recently had to do some emergency archaeology along that stretch of cliffs, some Bronze age Barrows were about to fall into the sea.

 

Then there are the actual cliff falls,

Landslide | Jurassic Coast | family injured | Charmouth beach | Western Morning News | This is Cornwall

 

Didn`t notice any barrows when walking there. Must have been in the fenced off area?

 

Couldn't find a link to it, it was something I read in the local paper. Might have been Thornecombe Beacon.

There are pockets of Quick sand, or rather quick mud, as you get further on towards Lyme.

About 20 years ago a womans dog came home covered in blue lias mud, they never found her body:(

 

On the beach, surely, not the headland?

 

Noo, the headland is a deathtrap once you get into the Lias series.

Lyme Regis Landslip Black Ven 2008 - YouTube

Trouble is, no one can come back to tell you where the dangerous bits are, on account of being dead and hidden.