17/06/2026
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What a stunner! The Scottish Blackface ram “Macgregor,” owned by James R. Dempster of Ladyton, was photographed by Charles Reid around 1890.
The Blackface, or Scottish Blackface, is a British sheep breed and the most common in the United Kingdom.
Despite its name, it didn’t originate in Scotland but rather south of the Anglo-Scottish border. Its exact origins remain unclear, but it reached the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth century, replacing the earlier Scottish Dun-face or Old Scottish Shortwool, a Northern European short-tailed type likely similar to today’s Shetland.
