2013
NX2761 : Drumlin landscape
taken 11 years ago, near to Barlae, Dumfries And Galloway, Scotland
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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