English: Water trickling down the cliff face. Water can be seen running down the cliff face in a small stream coming from the landward side and spilling onto the beach. Over time little steps have formed in the dark layer of clay which forms the cliff base. Wave action is undermining the cliff face from the seaward side also, from where the sea is eating away at the cliff base - crumbling and eventually toppling onto the beach. The layers above are slipping downwards, taking all vegetation with them. The exposed cliff face is easy prey for wind and weather. All that remains of the revetments along this section of coastline is a skeleton of bare posts with nothing much in between > 1034436. Coastal erosion in the vicinity has been estimated at an approximate rate of one metre/year, which accounts for the loss of a strip of land approximately two kilometres wide since the Roman invasion in 43 CE, resulting in the disappearance into the sea of several medieval villages.