Flint wall detail, Seaford
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Flint wall detail, Seaford
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 13 May 2023
Over a base layer or footing of large knapped flints, courses of fairly regular whole small flints are set in mortar. These old walls are seen everywhere locally. The flints were presumably quarried from chalk, though some could have been collected from the beaches below eroding chalk cliffs, where the flints occur in bands: Image This image reference: 7542147 (straightened to show level courses).
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Image Location
Latitude
50.771054
Longitude
0.104053