REDKIRK POINT (4081)
Condition
| 1 | |
| ORGANIC MATERIAL, INTERTIDAL PEAT, SUBMERGED FOREST, SUBMERGED GROUND SURFACE | |
| 349075 | |
| Dumfries and Galloway |
Description
| Patches of black organic material uncovered under shingle beach. Situated near excavated Mesolithic occupation site and is under severe coastal erosion as shingle beach is rapidly being removed by sea. ShoreUPDATE February 2014: Two thin layers (less than 100mm)of black organic material uncovered and/or broken up / washed away. Numerous ancient tree stumps growing in and roots below organic layer also being washed away. Some trunks lying in organic layer. ShoreUPDATE March 2019 As described, erosion is ongoing, peat deposit being broken up and trees exposed in peat surface and eroding section |
Location
| 330400.00 | |
| 565100.00 | |
| 27700 | |
| 54.9756279 | |
| -3.0888979 |
Submitted photographs
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26/02/2019 | Feb 2019: tree exposed in eroding section | training1 |
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26/02/2019 | Feb 2019: tree in intertidal peat | training1 |
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26/02/2019 | Feb 2019: eroding section with exposed tree | training1 |
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26/02/2019 | Feb 2019: eroding peat at Redkirk Point | training1 |
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16/04/2019 | Eroding intertidal clay and peat at Redkirk point | joannahambly |
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04/02/2014 | Organic layer and tree stumps | coombey |
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04/02/2014 | Organic layer breaking up | coombey |
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04/02/2014 | Redkirk Point - context showing layers and sea defence | coombey |
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Submitted updates
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| 3309 | 26/02/2019 | training1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1591 | 04/02/2014 | coombey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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