Welsh Journals

skimming or trimming to a surface that had been more or less shaped before the Mesozoic burial. The Gower story ends with the events of Quaternary times. Ice-sheets spread across Gower, some even from the Irish Sea, and deposits of boulder-clay, sand and gravel were thinly spread over the solid rocks beneath. Man occupied the caves or cliff tops of Gower. Sea-level still continued to oscillate, and after the close of the Ice-Age a gradual drowning took place through Neolithic and into Bronze Age times. The eastern and extreme northern outline of the Gower Peninsula was etched out. The building of Gower was complete.