HOST Class 15

Geology:

hummocky and slope moraines, coarse to medium textured till. Soft rock geologies.

Landforms:

valley maraines depressional and receiving sites, ice-scoured landscapes with rock knolls and pockets of drift, some stepped topography, footslopes, till embayments, spring lines and concave slopes.

Soils:

peaty gley, peaty podzols and peaty rankers on porous rock types (wetness class V and VI).

Vegetation:

permanent and rush pastures, commercial forestry, bog heather moorland and molinia grassland, flush sites with mosses, rushes and sedges.