Doggers on the beach

If you thought I was going to be talking about clandestine sexual activities associated with the outdoors, you're going to be disappointed. Doggers are ironstone boulders (siderite) which have been deposited or have formed (I'm no geologist) in layers of Eocene strata. Through natural erosion over the years,  boulders have fallen from the cliffs and now lay along it's base.  Usually most of these doggers are covered by deposits of sand and gravel washed in by long shore drift, although during the winter season they're often exposed by stormy weather. During the 17th century considerable quantities of doggers were collected from around the Head in what was to be a failed project to build a pier, later in the 19th century the same doggers were quarried out, valued for their high iron ore content, luckily this exploitation was short lived as it caused substantial damage and reduction of the headland.