IRONCLOWN SHOP ABOUT
ON FRAISTHORPE
Photographed by Keaton Brignall McDougall
Designed by Lola Penston Raja
2022
Fraisthorpe is a beach cradled in the Holderness coastline, which extends 61km from Flamborough Head to Spurn Point. The earth is a glacial till mixture of clay and sand deposited around 18,000 years ago. It is difficult to even consider it as rock as it crumbles between a gentle press of your fingertips. The coastline erodes at an average annual rate of 2 meters a year, which makes it one of the fastest eroding coastlines in Europe. For perspective, this is around 2 million tonnes of earth moved by the elements each year. Approximately 3 miles have been lost since Roman times, within which were 23 villages. The only rock tough enough to stand firm is that made by man, the bunkers made for a war that never came. Their shapes changed, but roughly consistent relics facing a new fight they hadn’t been intended for, but are sure to lose.