In a brief continuation of the previous discussion about high waves and the effect on the coastline, photos below show the current state of the cliffs at Thorpeness, as they were on 14th April 2022.
Multiple slippages can be seen from the cliff frontage, with the surface slumping and collapsing down to the beach at the base of the cliff.
Exposed and collapsed cliff frontage Thorpeness Beach
There also seems to be evidence of carving or gouging, with large indents into the surface of the cliff.
Scouring and carving into surface of cliffs, Thorpeness beach
Pillars and holes seem to have been created by the erosive forces that are reshaping these cliffs.
Profile of the cliff with signs of surface slumping, scouring and pillars created by wave energy
Residents living in properties near the edge of the cliff are managing the rapid erosion as best they can and have added tape at the end of their gardens that say Do Not Enter.
Tape added at top of cliffs, Thorpeness Beach
But the forces, altering and scouring out these cliffs contain an energy that is hard to predict and restrain.
Altered Coast is a blog about coastal erosion on the Suffolk and Norfolk coast in East Anglia. The blog was originally inspired by an area of marshland in Suffolk, in a process of change, Hazelwood Marshes. It’s previous incarnation as a freshwater inland marsh dramatically altered when walls acting as a border were breached by a tidal surge in 2020.
The blog alteredcoast will seek to explore the concept of change in relation to coastal erosion. As whether a beach erodes or accretes (accumulates sediment) it always changes from how it appeared a day or a month before. It has been altered in some way.
The concept of change on this constantly evolving coastline will be consider how modifications happen and the factors that influence transformations, big and small. The challenges on the coast and its shifting features, will be discussed alongside the everchanging, ever restless North Sea. The constant accompaniment to the stories of the alteredcoast.
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