Dowies Hill

An elongated whaleback in The Machars of Dumfries and Galloway, Dowies Hill rises to just beyond 75m (246 feet) and represents the westernmost of a line of four well-defined drumlins that reach their highest point at Mill Hill to the southeast. These form part of an extensive drumlin field and have their principal axes aligned NE-SW indicating the direction of flow of an ancient ice sheet which once covered this area. Dowies Hill is unnamed on modern Ordnance Survey maps.


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