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00:00One specific site that I looked at was called Egg Rock.
00:05It is a few miles to the south along the coast and no longer exists.
00:10However, in Victorian times it was a local popular luncheon destination.
00:17It advertised in the local paper.
00:20It had a very unique shape that was distinctly egg-like
00:25and it got its English name from that.
00:29It was known as Egg Rock.
00:31We know that Egg Rock was roughly 7 to 8 meters high
00:36because there is a fascinating photograph
00:39that has a gentleman standing right at the base of it.
00:43Based on his height, we can determine a rough estimate
00:47of how large the stack was during the early 1900s.
00:54We have various reports of when the rock stack disappeared.
01:00We have a newspaper article citing 1907 as the date of the demise.
01:08We also have photographs that are dated 1908 and 1909
01:14which contradict the newspaper.
01:17But in the Kerdagian Museum, we have this wonderful painting
01:20by Alfred Worthington that is dated between 1900 and 1920.
01:27Below says that this stack came down in a winter storm of 1930-1931.
01:35So it has been quite the mystery.
01:38But I can confidently say that it did fall in 1907 based on my research.
01:45The significance of studying this formation gives us insight
01:50into how these rocky coasts are formed and how they erode.
01:56If we can retrace the past and discern how long it's taking
02:03these structures to be built by coastal erosion
02:08and then subsequently fall, we can predict further coastal erosion
02:13along the coastline in the future.
02:16Having local photographs and paintings, sketches,
02:21any visual source along the coastline is really integral
02:27for us to be able to reconstruct this area so we can monitor
02:33coastal change and any adaptation of the area.
02:40If anyone has any visual sources that they would like to send in,
02:46please email them to set at abber.ac.uk.