Seaford Head 86m (282ft)
Summit Feature: No feature: ground by cliff edge. (Survey: obvious summit)
Classification: Hill Trigpoint*, P30 Tump.
OS Grid Ref: TV494978 (10 figure Grid Ref: TV4940097812).
UK Area: 42 - South-East England & the Isle of Wight (OS Maps 1:50k 199. 1:25k OL25,123.)
Latitude: 50.76067, Longitude: 0.11694, Height: 86 metres (282 feet)
Prominence: 52 metres (171 feet)
Unique Waypoint POI Name: 0086.- (DoBIH Hill ID: 18599)
Associated Trigpoints:
Main TP: TP7336 'Seaforth Head'* Grid Ref: TV4937797825 Separation: 26m from Hill grid ref.
* This trigpoint may have been reported missing or destroyed
Other TP: TP5261 'Seaford Head' * Grid Ref: TV4937797824 Separation: 26m from Hill grid ref.
* This trigpoint may have been reported missing or destroyed
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- '0086.-' TV494978 Seaford Head (86m, p52)
- * This trigpoint may have been reported missing or destroyed
Member's Comments on Seaford Head...
- Chris Pearson says...
- A purple mottled sunset as the winter sun sank over the horizon. A nice grassy walk up the golf course (new clubhouse being built cost £1.7M) keeping a healthy distance back from the cliff edge. Trig missing - splash? The chalk cliffs and foreshore at Seaford Head reveal a marine environment dating from the Late Cretaceous epoch, 89-86 million years ago. Fossils occur commonly throughout the chalk, in particular echinoids, sponges, bivalves, that inhabited the prehistoric seafloor at the time when Seaford Head and much of Great Britain, along with Europe, lay beneath a relatively shallow sea around 40°N of the equator, on an equivalent latitude to the Mediterranean Sea today. Global sea-levels were over 200 meters higher.The purity of the chalk indicates its formation took place far from land, mostly free of terrestrial sands and silts that would otherwise have coloured it. During the most recent ice age, between 115,000 - 10,000 years ago freezing winds cut across the exposed land, carrying with them weathered sands and soils. These sediments, known as loess, form the crumbly sandy layer seen at the cliff top. http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/seaford_fossils.htm
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Seaford Head has been climbed by...
Adrian Andrew Brown Areluctant-triggeR arrans BadNewsWalking Chris Pearson cpjmathieson craftinessa David Gradwell Dugswell2 edgradwell glynspencer Griefmiester Ham Shady IainT jonglew JSB Konnor64 Mal Grey micks trigs nordicstar oakesave PaulOnFoot PeterD PGCE rhw stevent0809 sunnytrev swampysean Ted Richards
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