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8th June, 2018. Metaphors 2 and just one small rock.

Beach – so many pebbles and rocks on the beach, but no two the identical – different colours, different shapes, different sizes, different histories. Natural landscape – so much natural vegetation, but no two points on the surface identical – different colours, different species, different sizes, different evolutionary histories. Society – so many people on […]

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4th June, 2018. Clay banks (coastal flood defences) – continued.

The authors of Tidal Lands (s.p.b.s) write of ‘keying up’ in connection with the reinforcing of the seaward flood bank slope with blocks of stone, usually chalk in this region, sometimes other more available stone elsewhere. The skill of the worker(s) was to not just dump the stone from the barge on the side of the

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29th May, 2018. The example of Holland (clay banks continued). Also Kilnsea Visitor Centre.

Having considered Sunk Island the authors of Tidal Lands then describe the clay banks of ‘Holland’ in some detail. The background to this is that about 50% of the Netherlands is below one metre above sea level, 28% being below sea level. The techniques of reclaiming coastal lowlands have been pioneered by the Dutch since the

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