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More Sheep

7/9/2012

 
The sheep counting has continued all through this week - and there were a lot of sheep about in east central scotland in the sixteenth century!

Many thousands of people had just a few sheep - sometimes only three or four. At the other extreme, the royal flocks in the 1530s to 1560s ran to thousands.

More interesting are the flocks of a few dozen or a couple of hundred. Slowly, details of flock structure are beginning to emerge from the archives - how many ewes, how many lambs, how many wedders (castrated males).

The next question is 'what did they look like'? What type of sheep were they?

Keep watching!



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