 It forms a ridge that runs east and west for about a mile, and is higher than the surrounding land.The south-facing slope has a mosaic of longer and shorter turfs and has a mixture of grasses, sedges and forbs.Here grow a typical calcareous community including glaucus sedge, sheep’s-fescue, meadow oat-grass, heath-grass and common quaking-grass, together with cowslip, salad burnet, rock-rose, betony, small scabious and devil’s-bit scabious.