A Son of the Rock

I hadn’t expected to find statues of sheep in Lockerbie town centre but there they were.

These two were across the street from the road the cinema is on:-

A bigger flock was bit further down the main street:-

The statues commemorate the throughput of sheep via the town’s sheep market. 30,000 to 50,000 according to the inscription in the stone to the front here (from the Gazetteer of Scotland 1832-1885.)

Apparently some locals complained about the expense and upheaval.

I quite liked them.