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!
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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