Galloway pony
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The Galloway pony is an extinct horse breed, once native to Scotland and northern England. It was said to have "good looks, a wide, deep chest and a tendency to pace rather than trot." In the 18th cen
Illustration of a Galloway Pony from 1842.
Border reivers
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Border reivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border. They included both English and Scottish people, and they raided the entire border country without regard to their victims' nationality. The
Reivers at Gilnockie Tower in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, from a 19th-century print
Notorious raider Walter Scott of Harden's horn, noted in a poem called "The Reiver's Wedding" by Sir Walter Scott. It reads in part: "He took a bugle frae his side,/With names carved o'er and o'er,/Full many a chief of meikle pride,/That Border bugle bore."
Dryhope Tower near Selkirk in Scotland, built in the 1500s for protection against the reivers
Auld Wat of Harden by Tom Scott. A romanticised image of a notorious raider, Walter Scott of Harden.