You can not read about the Reivers& not realize that CATTLE = a huge factor in many (if not a great share) of their activities!!! Because of the above, I would like to offer my observations on what these cattle may have been (?) IMHO- they were some version of the category called GALLOWAY COWS Historians writings differ somewhat, but upon three points they generally agree regarding the origin of the Galloway. The breed is recognized to be a very ancient one, with obscure origins shrouded in antiquity and its name derived from the word Gallovid or Gaul. The Gauls were the native inhabitants of the regality known as the Province of Galloway. This province once comprised six shires(counties) ... Dumfries, Lanark, Renfew, Ayr, Kirkcudbright and Wigtown in the very southernmost extremity of Scotlands Lowlands. The cattle of the region were said to be dark, smooth-polled, wavy-haired with undercoats like beavers fur and for centuries they went unnamed, referred to only as the black cattle of Galloway.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:08:12 +0000
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