Its earlier importance was as a harbour, and then a source of sea sand useful for improving the moorland soil.

The earliest and lowest deposits in the cave contain large amounts of sea sand.

Eliot recounted how he experimented with "black sea sand" for use in iron-making.

This essay concerned the experiments and findings from using black sea sand to make iron.

This means having sea, sun, sand and urban culture all rolled into one.

Her hair was all gritty with sea sand, too, so she washed that.

Most are built with concrete using salty sea sand, he said.

There, we landed in a solitary place, and were mustered on the sea sand.

The young lady walked between us, and we walked on the cool sea sand, in the direction of Filey.

One contemporary explanation for these changes was that the beds became covered by the shifting sea sands.