Years of revetment work and extensive drainage systems can't, and more importantly, won't, hold back nature when she wants to move. The clay, sand and gravel banded cliffs of Barton, rich in fossils from a period 40 million years ago when the area was a massive warm lagoon, are on the move, home towards the sea. Water puddles on the clay layers forming a viscus surface allowing tons of soil to shift; whole sections have slipped. Paths are smothered, or ripped a part, drainage pipes fractured and steel shuttering separated and bent with ease. Quite the spectacle to behold; leaving you in awe of nature. Though, we should learn to cut our loses in these circumstances, we're not going to win, merely delay the inevitable.
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