The Gower Peninsula in all its beauty For Mary en.wikipedia.org Gower, or Gwyr in Welsh is the delectable peninsula that runs some 18 miles east from Swansea. The unique landscape composition of limestone headlands, sandy bays, ruined castles, and downs, that has deservedly been set aside as an area of outstanding natural beauty. It is a surprise to find such unspoilt country, basically unexploited. Geologically Gower is formed by two rocks - limestone and Old Red Sandstone. The limestone forms the cliffs and the coastline on the south, the Old Red Sandstone heaves up from within the limestone in the humpback downs of Cefn Bryn, Rhossili and Llanmadog. The limestone plateau lies at a level of 200 feet, cut by the sea about 1 million years ago and then lifted to its present site. In the Ice Age, the whole area was covered by the glaciers that overrode Gower and Pembrokeshire from the Irish Sea. The final melting of the ice, and the corresponding upliftment of the land, have left their mark in the raised beaches that ring the coast. As the ice disappear, early man appeared. Gower had yielded impressive evidence of early man in the famous bone caves in the limestone of the south coast and on the open site of Burry Holms. Later, somewhere around 3000BC the westward moving colonists of the megalithic tomb-builders settled in Gower. They left their memorials in the great cromlechs, from Arthur's Stone to Giant's Grave that lie all over the peninsula. Rhossili is the climax of <b>...</b>
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