Truncated dunes

The beach at Studland has been hammered by the recent storms, with sea eating away at the fragile sandy coastline. Between Middle Beach and North Beach, where the dunes have been eaten into, plenty of World War Two remains have been exposed.  Angle iron pickets, twisted barbed wire pickets, sections of scaffold bar as well as the usual pieces of rusted whatever. It's amazing that even after all this time, still the detritus of the war years keeps on surfacing; a testament maybe to the activity and quantity of materials used at Studland.  It took years after the end of the war for the Studland peninsular to be cleared of ordinance and made safe for public use. Even today ordinance is regularly found on the beach or in the dunes.

The I've walked this beach since I was a child and can't remember seeing the dunes truncated by the sea in this way; well, not to this extreme anyway.  For a kilometer, or more, the dunes beyond North Beach, towards Shell Bay, have been cut by the sea leaving a near vertical face, in places up to 2.5-3m high. It's a strangely unnatural look,  like the dunes have been quarried away and so different from the usually gently decreasing grass covered dunes.