Tweedsmuir, Borders

Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
Jul 1951
 Description
Text on negative envelope reads 'Tweedsmuir. Sheep shearing (field of sheep)'. View of a flock of sheep after shearing. The adult sheep have been sheared but the lambs will not be sheared until the following year. They are penned in by a drystane dyke and a fence. On the other side of the fence the sheep are probably still to be sheared.
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Department
Photo
Collection
Munn Photographic Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Jul 1951
Subject place
Tweedsmuir/Scottish Borders
Subject notes
Sheep are shorn of their fleece around June or July each year. If the sheep are not sheared, the wool will moult. The Borders were a major sheep producing area from the days of the great Border abbeys. The Cheviot breed was developed there.
Accession number
P39555

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