Beneath extensive deposits of grey pyritic shale a thin band of sideritic mudstone is present at this site and there is a further 6 metres of almost non-bituminous shale beneath it. This geological configuration, along with its proximity to the port of Whitby, offered Sandsend near-ideal conditions for the rapidly expanding alum industry from the early 17th century onwards.
So wide-scale and prolonged were these activities, that significant areas of the Yorkshire coast were permanently altered.
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Scarborough, United Kingdom
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