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  geological walk, St Bees Head
Fleswick Bay, St Bees Head
Fleswick Bay
site name:-   Irish Sea
site name:-   St Bees Head
civil parish:-   St Bees (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bay
locality type:-   beach
locality type:-   coast
locality type:-   geological site
coordinates:-   NX94501330
1Km square:-   NX9413
10Km square:-   NX91

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CDL18.jpg (taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL29.jpg  Beach and coast.
(taken 23.6.2015)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 13) 
placename:-  Fleswick
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Fleswick
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Fleswick"
no symbol 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Keswick Bay
item:-  geological site
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G831A301, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1831 part 1 p.301  "[on St Bees Head] ... Passing Keswick Bay (where the lapidary may find pebbles of every hue, susceptible of a beautiful polish, and suitable for snuff-boxes, brooches, &c.), ..."

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CDL22.jpg  Ripple marks.
(taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL23.jpg  Ripple marks.
(taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL24.jpg  Jointed and eroded.
(taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL25.jpg  Notice the cross bedding.
(taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL26.jpg  Notice the cross bedding.
(taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL27.jpg  The sandstone is banded red and white; the red is coloured by iron as Fe2O3, the white by iron as FeO.
(taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL28.jpg  Graffiti:-
"ANDY G 78" "H T 1741" (taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL20.jpg (taken 23.6.2015)  
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CDL21.jpg (taken 23.6.2015)  
The approach gully is littered from the sea.
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