Rocks on Rhossili Down – Part 4

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View of Worms Head from the top of Rhossili Down, Gower, showing rock outcrop of Old Devonian Sandstone Quartz Conglomerate in foreground (20)

More photographs from Rhossili Down, showing the Old Devonian Red Sandstone quartz conglomerate, as natural rocky out-crops and as boulders, some of which have been used in Bronze Age burial cairns, and Neolithic megalithic chambered tombs such as the Sweynes Howse.

View of Burry Holms and the Loughor estuary at low tide from the top of Rhossili Down in Gower (21)

The summit of Rhossili Down on the Gower Peninsula with rocky outcrops of Old Devonian Sandstone quartz conglomerate (22)

Bronze Age burial cairn boulders made of Old Devonian Sandstone quartz conglomerate on Rhossili Down in Gower (23)

Sheep sheltering amongst the heather and the quartz conglomerate boulders on Rhossili Down in the Gower Peninsula (24)

Remains of a megalithic Neolithic chambered tomb made from Old rDevonian Sandstone quartz conglomerate boulders on Rhossili Down in the Gower Peninsula (25)

Sweyne's Howse Neolithic megalithic chambered tomb built from Old Devonian Sandstone quartz conglomerate boulders on Rhossili Down in the Gower Peninsula (26)

Sweyne's Howse Neolithic megalithic chambered tomb built from Old Devonian Sandstone quartz conglomerate boulders on Rhossili Down in the Gower Peninsula (27)

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