Sandsend Ness is an old alum quarrying site close to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. Beneath extensive deposits of grey pyritic shale a thin band of sideritic mudstone is present at this site and there is a further 6 metres of almost non-bituminous shale beneath it. This geological configuration, along with its proximity to the port of Whitby, offered Sandsend near-ideal conditions for the rapidly expanding alum industry from the early 17th century onwards. So wide-scale and prolonged were these activities, that significant areas of the Yorkshire coast were permanently altered.
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| - Sandsend Ness is an old alum quarrying site close to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. Beneath extensive deposits of grey pyritic shale a thin band of sideritic mudstone is present at this site and there is a further 6 metres of almost non-bituminous shale beneath it. This geological configuration, along with its proximity to the port of Whitby, offered Sandsend near-ideal conditions for the rapidly expanding alum industry from the early 17th century onwards. So wide-scale and prolonged were these activities, that significant areas of the Yorkshire coast were permanently altered. (en)
- Sandsend Ness är en udde i Storbritannien. Den ligger i riksdelen England, i den centrala delen av landet, 300 km norr om huvudstaden London. Terrängen inåt land är platt åt sydväst, men åt sydväst är den kuperad. Havet är nära Sandsend Ness åt nordost. Den högsta punkten i närheten är 84 meter över havet, 1,0 km väster om Sandsend Ness. Runt Sandsend Ness är det ganska tätbefolkat, med 129 invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Whitby, 4,6 km sydost om Sandsend Ness. Trakten runt Sandsend Ness består i huvudsak av gräsmarker. (sv)
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| - Sandsend Ness is an old alum quarrying site close to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. Beneath extensive deposits of grey pyritic shale a thin band of sideritic mudstone is present at this site and there is a further 6 metres of almost non-bituminous shale beneath it. This geological configuration, along with its proximity to the port of Whitby, offered Sandsend near-ideal conditions for the rapidly expanding alum industry from the early 17th century onwards. So wide-scale and prolonged were these activities, that significant areas of the Yorkshire coast were permanently altered. The double sulphate of aluminium and either potassium or ammonia is commonly known as alum. This material was of great importance through to the late 19th century in leather tanning and in the wool dying industry. Even today it is still used in some places as a mordant (dye fixative). Fossils are present in large numbers in the deposits, including ammonites such as Hildoceras bifrons and Dactylioceras bifrons and also Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur remains, though the latter are nowadays much less commonly found. In fact, the ammonite Hildoceras is named after an early Christian saint, the Abbess of Whitby St. Hild or Hilda (614-680). It was believed that such ammonite fossils were the snakes which had been miraculously turned into stone by St. Hilda. It was not unknown for local “artisans” to carve snakes' heads onto ammonites, and sell these “relics” as proof of the miracle. The coat of arms of nearby Whitby actually include three such 'snakestones'. (en)
- Sandsend Ness är en udde i Storbritannien. Den ligger i riksdelen England, i den centrala delen av landet, 300 km norr om huvudstaden London. Terrängen inåt land är platt åt sydväst, men åt sydväst är den kuperad. Havet är nära Sandsend Ness åt nordost. Den högsta punkten i närheten är 84 meter över havet, 1,0 km väster om Sandsend Ness. Runt Sandsend Ness är det ganska tätbefolkat, med 129 invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Whitby, 4,6 km sydost om Sandsend Ness. Trakten runt Sandsend Ness består i huvudsak av gräsmarker. Klimatet i området är tempererat. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är 7 °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är 15 °C, och den kallaste är januari, med 0 °C. (sv)
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