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IN the original Palestinian setting, sheepfolds were enclosures fenced off by stones or briars at the outskirts of the village, and a village with a common sheepfold meant that, at night, all the sheep were corralled together and the shepherds take turn as guards or gatekeepers.
Darren Trott, 33, formerly of Sheepfolds, Sunderland has been jailed for four years and eight months.
Stockbreeders want to build new or modernize the existing so-called sheepfolds i.e.
For example, if before the 1930s in some of the villages there were organised 20 to 25 collective sheepfolds, in 1969 there were only 5 to 7 sheepfold (14), numbers that give a good insight about the occupational changes during this period of time.
Sometimes it seems I'll never get back to sleeping like that again--like the simple way that my mother led me to sleep as a child, with a Scottish sleep song about sheepfolds to quiet my bones.
Wider views include an aerial swoop over the stone wall sheepfolds patterning Snowdon, the slopes looking up to Llyn y Garn still holding snow, and seaweed-strewn sands.
"I'd guess, that given Austerlands' hilly location, it possibly signified an area where sheepfolds were in use by our distant ancestors."
If the shepherds have their own sheepfolds, then the animals will be counted one by one and safely enclosed for the night.
Table 1: Parameters used to assess the present state of cultural landscapes Land use Human settlements Presence of Score mining activities Industrial areas Deprived Quarries 4 urban areas Constructions, Urban Waste dumps 3 arable land, settlements orchards Pastures, hayfields Grouped Rehabilitated 2 settlements dumps Forest, scrub, water Scattered Areas without 1 bodies, sands, settlements, visible effects of exposed bedrocks temporary mining activities settlements (sheepfolds), areas without human settlements Fig.
Among the site's historical treasures are several Bronze Age cairns, the remains of Iron Age and Roman settlements, undated sheepfolds and enclosures, and post-medieval slate quarries.
While "we will build sheepfolds here for our cattle and cities for our little ones, we ourselves will be armed to go to battle with the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place ...
Although indoor lambing is not possible in such an extensive breeding area, due to the lack of sheepfolds, recommendations have been made on proper disposal of placentas (they should not be left on the ground where they dry up, but properly collected and incinerated).
Before long they had departed for less ethnocentric (pseudo or not) sheepfolds, and their departure had not gone unnoticed.