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Rhoose: Landscape

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Roose Point. Stable grassland. Roose new cement quarry

Blue lias quarry for cement. Rhoose Point, early plant colonisation of pools. June 1971

Date: June 1971

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Brown soil tipped against vulnerable quarry wall at Rhoose Point. This is the 9 inch layer of topsoil from the site and is NOT a sea bulwark. Probably will not replace it. 04/06/71

Date: 04/06/1971

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Rhoose pool and 2 quarrying levels. Being filled in June 1971

Date: June 1971

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Rhoose Quarry pool in 1983

Sunset view of Rhoose West quarry pool. View West 1983

Date: 1983

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Rhoose Quarry pool in 1983

Big new pool in working quarry. Rhoose (East) 1983

Date: 1983

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Fontygarry Bay (with snow)

View West to Aberthaw power station at Breaksea Point beyond the Leys Beach. From outside old Rhoose cement quarry, 04/06/71

Date: 04/06/1971

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre (SEWBReC)
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Dr Mary Gillham
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