In November 2019 I reported on a massive fresh rockfall in the cliffs at the northern end of Traeth Mawr, Newport. I went back there the other day while we were out for a walk on the beach, and it has almost all gone! That must all be the result of wave action around HWM -- quite impressive, given that it has not been a particularly stormy winter. Seven months of wave action, and virtually all of the finer material is gone -- and the larger boulders too have been rearranged and dispersed......
On the new photo below, I have marked in the approx shape of the debris cone as it was when fresh.
Addendum: 19 September 2020. This is the rockfall site today (a clearer photo). The remaining debris on the beach seems to have found some sort of equilibrium.....
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