260 REPORT — 1903. 



C.G.S. and between East and West ' Mathers,' on the Lawrencekirk 

 estate The damage is done by south-easterly winds and spring tides, 

 and a short wall, 60 feet long, has been built 300 yards south of Johns- 

 haven to save the land. No shingle is removed. 



Part of the sandy shore has been removed by the sea between East 

 and "West Haven, Carnoustie (Forfar). There are no groynes, and beach 

 material is occasionally removed by the permission of the factor of the 

 estate. 



The cliffs in certain parts of St. Andrews Bay are being worn away 

 by the sea, and near the town have to be supported by masonry and con- 

 crete walls. Within the past three years several cases of landslip are 

 recorded. As before no groynes have been built, and material is taken 

 from the east sands by contractors for building purposes. 



The only gain in land from the Scottish coast is reported from 

 Burntisland owing to the accumulation of sandbanks on the foreshore ; 

 much sand is dredged for the construction of the new docks. 



Finally, in the counties of Haddington and Berwick, from Pefferburn 

 to St. Abb's Head, a distance of 29 miles, a loss of cliff takes place at 

 spring tides with north-easterly gales. The coast is unprotected, and no 

 shingle &c. is removed. 



England. 

 From St. Abb's Head to Saltburn. 



The changes on this coast appear to be insignificant, but losses are re- 

 corded in the neighbourhood and to the north of Hartlepool, near Shields, 

 and on the northern side of Blyth, the latter part being now protected. 

 On the other hand, small gains of land are reported from Holy Island 

 Sands and St. Gan IBreakwater, Redcar. As regards the coast-protections 

 Berwick is shielded by a pier, while Newliggin and Cresswell (Wansbeck 

 Road to Chevington Burn) are groyned. South of this section the list of 

 coast-protections given in the returns apparently understates the truth, 

 nothing of the kind being mentioned from Tynemouth and South Shields. 

 The northern side of Blyth Harbour is protected by a wall, and piers 

 have been built at Sunderland and Hartlepool. At the latter town the 

 sea- and dock-walls have a tendency to keep the sand in the bay. The 

 concrete pier erected at Skinningrove is said not to affect the beach. 



Sand is removed from Berwick, Bamburgh, the Amble and Hauxley 

 district (Alnmouth), from the neighbourhood of North Shields (from Brier 

 Dene Burn to Low Light), Sunderland, and the north of Seaham, and 

 from Saltburn. On the contrary it is not removed from the ten miles of 

 coast between Wansbeck River and Brier Dene Burn (Blyth Haven) from 

 S. Shields to Souter Point, and from Seaham Harbour and Hawthorn Hive. 



The Yorkshire Coast south of Saltburn. 



For the stretch of coast between Saltburn and Scarborough Bay no 

 returns have been received, but for the important district between Filey 

 Point and Spu-rn Head the records are complete, and the following may 

 be taken as a general summary. 



Between Filey Point and Flamborough Head the coast line is practi- 

 cally stationary, except in Filey Bay, from Filey Brig to the King and 

 Queen Rocks at Speeton, where the average loss for some twenty-eight years 

 is about 3 feet per annum. On the southern side of Flamborough Head the 



