The School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Swanage Field Trip

A one-day field trip is taken to Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck primarily to see the Portland stone – a Jurassic limestone found at the start of the Jurassic coast. Other topics covered include slope instability in the Wealden Clays and Sands, the Swanage bay coastal protection scheme; and the economic changes to the area over the past 100 years.