2013

NX2761 : Drumlin landscape

taken 11 years ago, near to Barlae, Dumfries And Galloway, Scotland

Drumlin landscape
Drumlin landscape
The landscape of Galloway was fashioned during the last ice age, and in central Wigtownshire the retreating ice left behind these long, low, rounded hills composed of mounds of boulder clay - called drumlins - in their hundreds (a 'drumlin swarm'). Because they are well drained and covered in fertile soil they have been cultivated or grazed for centuries, and stand out like green islands amongst the surrounding poor quality marshy low lying ground.
In the photo, the Tarf Water cuts across the middle distance, its course marked by the line of bushes and bracken. The farm in the distance is Barmore, and the ice smoothed whaleback of Cairnsmore of Fleet rises in the background.

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This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Tarf Water [12] · Left [3] · Farm [2] · Stand [2] ·
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NX2761, 15 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
David Baird   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 12 August, 2013   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 13 August, 2013
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NX 2773 6122 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:54.9526N 4:41.3524W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NX 2727 6102
View Direction
East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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