| Port Mulgrave harbour was built 1856-7 to ship ironstone
from shore and adjacent mines - this is the silted up harbour (boats at
cliff foot for scale!) |
To the left - the blocked up entrance to the Grinkle
Mine/Seaton Drift. Seams mined included the Main Seam in the
Cleveland Ironstone, and Top Seam in the Dogger |
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| Kettleness in the distance (next bay down the coast) -
shaped by the alum workings |
Pit props evident (bottom left of photo). Port
Mulgrave mine was worked from the 1850s to 1881. |
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| Ammonites in the mudstones; also belemnites |
Some faulting apparent in the bedding - Mulgrave Shale
Member (Jet Rock) of the Whitby Mudstone Formation, Early Jurassic |
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| Large nodule in the shaley layers - this is approximately 2
metres wide |
From the cliff top, the channels cut into the rock platform
for loading can be seen |
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