The Mountain of Treflach

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Sweeney, adjacent to Treflach is famous for its mountain. In the accompanying video (click the link here) you can see the mountain of Treflach. In the British Isles a mountain is usually over 2000ft so technically at 700ft above sea level neither are mountains. The landscape tells the story of wind, rain and the sun’s physical weathering over the last 15,000 years and prior to that the scratch marks of the glacier movements. Some sedimentary outcrops show seabed debris in their strata. 10,000 years ago Lake Lapworth slowly drained out at Iron Bridge Gorge leaving behind bare rock. That rock has now been colonised by mosses, lichen and small rock plants in crevices, overshadowed by the canopy of a deciduous woodland that protects it.


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