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Shetland ponies, Unst
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CEP - Shetland
Shetland ponies (Equus caballus), Unst, Shetland. Shetland ponies are the smallest of the pony breeds found in Britain (no taller than 42 inches) but they are also amongst the hardiest. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar.
24 June 1977
Shetland ponies, Fetlar
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Shetland - Fetlar
Shetland ponies, Fetlar. In the past Shetland Ponies were used by crofters for transport and carrying heavy items. Most often they were used for carrying or flitting peats.
21 June 2014
Shetland pony, Unst
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Shetland - Unst
Shetland pony, Uyeasound, Unst
23 June 2014
Shetland ponies, Sumburgh
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Shetland - Dunrossness
Shetland ponies at Sumburgh, with Sumburgh Head lighthouse behind.
19 June 2014
Shetland ponies, Fetlar
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Shetland - Fetlar
Shetland ponies, Fetlar
21 June 2014
Shetland ponies, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Shetland ponies with foal, Mornington, Foula. Crofters often didn’t have enough to feed them, so Shetland Ponies were marked to establish ownership and then set loose to run wild on the common or ‘scattald’. The ponies would be caught again when they were needed to carry out tasks.
28 June 2014
Shetland pony with foal, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Shetland pony with foal, Foula
26 June 2014
Shetland ponies, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Shetland ponies, Mornington, Foula. Sales of ponies form one of the sources of income for the islanders.
29 June 2014
Shetland ponies, Fetlar
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Shetland - Fetlar
Shetland ponies, Houbie, Fetlar, looking across to the peninsula of Lamb Hoga
16 July 2013
Shetland Pony, Burra
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Shetland - Scalloway
Shetland pony against the scattered crofting landscape of Burra, south of Scalloway
