Bat's Head from the west This headland of more resistant cha…
| Title | Bat's Head from the west This headland of more resistant chalk juts from the mainland, to the west of Swyre Head. Vertical bands of dark flint nodules can be seen in the white chalk. |
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Jim Champion
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| Source | Wikimedia Commons image |
| Date | 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 |
| Original size | 480 x 640 |
| Retrieved from source on | 14 Sep 2012 06:16:41 (UTC) |
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Bats Head and Bats Hole
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Bat's Head from the west This headland of more resistant chalk juts from the mainland, to the west of Swyre Head. Vertical bands of dark flint nodules can be seen in the white chalk.
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Bats Head and Bats Hole
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Bat's Head Small chalk headland with a natural arch (Bat's Hole) & a sea cave,
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Bat's Head
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Sunset at Bat's Head
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Sunset at Bat's Head The chalk headland is supposed to look like the head of a bat, and a cave piecing the headland looks like an eye. It is said that twice a year the setting sun shines through the c…
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Bat's Head from Swyre Head
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Butter Rock from Bat's Hole
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Butter Rock from Bat's Hole Taken from inside Bat's Hole at low tide, showing the sea pillar called Butter Rock, with Swyre Head cliff behind.
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The top of Bat's Head
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Bat's Head, Dorset
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Bat's Head, Dorset
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Bat's Head
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Bat's Head Looking west towards White Nothe and Weymouth and showing some of the succulent plants that manage to grow on the bear chalk.
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Wave-cut notch in the eastern side of Bat's Head This wave-cut notch at the base of the cliffs on the eastern side of Bat's Head shows that the cliffs are actively being eroded. As well as physical er…
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Wave-cut platform and notch, immediately east of Bat's Head In the foreground is the chalk wave-cut platform, with its vertical seams of flints exposed. The wave-cut notch in the eastern side of the B…
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Butter Rock, east of Bat's Head. Butter Rock is a chalk stack (pinnacle) to the east of Bat's Head.
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Butter Rock and The Bat's Hole The natural arch of the Bat's Hole at the bottom of the Bats Head headland. the Butter Rock is a pillar of chalk. To the left is a rock known as the Cow - one of several…
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Bat's Hole natural arch This small natural arch and wave-cut notch are evidence of active erosion of the chalk headland named Bat's Head. Eventually the arch will collapse leaving a stack and erosion …
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Bat's eye, South West Coast Path, Purbeck District, Dorset, South West England, England, United Kingdom osm
| City | Purbeck District |
| County | Dorset |
| Region | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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0 mBats Head and Bats Hole
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0 mBat's Head from the west This headland of more resistant chalk juts from the mainland, to the west of Swyre Head. Vertical bands of dark flint nodules can be seen in the white chalk.
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0 mBats Head and Bats Hole
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10 mBat's Head Small chalk headland with a natural arch (Bat's Hole) & a sea cave,
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10 mBat's Head
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10 mSunset at Bat's Head
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10 mSunset at Bat's Head The chalk headland is supposed to look like the head of a bat, and a cave piecing the headland looks like an eye. It is said that twice a year the setting sun shines through the cave, making the eye bright red. This is the best I could do. Photo taken at 1730 GMT from Pulpit Rock.
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14 mBat's Head from Swyre Head
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14 mButter Rock from Bat's Hole
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14 mButter Rock from Bat's Hole Taken from inside Bat's Hole at low tide, showing the sea pillar called Butter Rock, with Swyre Head cliff behind.
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20 mThe top of Bat's Head
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30 mBat's Head, Dorset
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30 mBat's Head, Dorset
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35 mBat's Head
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40 mBat's Head Looking west towards White Nothe and Weymouth and showing some of the succulent plants that manage to grow on the bear chalk.
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40 mWave-cut notch in the eastern side of Bat's Head This wave-cut notch at the base of the cliffs on the eastern side of Bat's Head shows that the cliffs are actively being eroded. As well as physical erosion by sand-carrying waves, there may be some biological erosion too from the organisms living in the inter-tidal zone. The chalk at the bottom of the notch and on the platform is a very clean white as it is usually submerged. There is a discussion of this inter-tidal notch on Ian West's intnernet field guide to the Geology of the Wessex Coast.
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40 mWave-cut platform and notch, immediately east of Bat's Head In the foreground is the chalk wave-cut platform, with its vertical seams of flints exposed. The wave-cut notch in the eastern side of the Bat's Head headland is straight ahead, mostly in darkness - the white of the chalk is obscured by darker coloured marine organisms that cling to the rock in the inter-tidal zone. This photo was taken when the tide was fairly low.
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40 mButter Rock, east of Bat's Head. Butter Rock is a chalk stack (pinnacle) to the east of Bat's Head.
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40 mButter Rock and The Bat's Hole The natural arch of the Bat's Hole at the bottom of the Bats Head headland. the Butter Rock is a pillar of chalk. To the left is a rock known as the Cow - one of several harder rocks aligned with Durle Door and the Man'O War rocks. On the horizon is the Isle of Portland.
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40 mBat's Hole natural arch This small natural arch and wave-cut notch are evidence of active erosion of the chalk headland named Bat's Head. Eventually the arch will collapse leaving a stack and erosion of the headland will continue. The chalk strata are vertical here - as shown by the seams of flints.
