How sheep conquered Scotland

How sheep conquered Scotland

Imagine in your mind’s eye a quintessential rural Scottish landscape. What do you see? I’d wager that high, craggy peaks loom over it, and perhaps a cascading burn runs along the dappled floor of a glen. Heather colours the foreground, and on upon a distant hillside the outline of a kilted figure tends his flock – that flock, of course, being sheep. So engrained are sheep in the classic imagery of Scotland that it is hard to imagine the place wi…