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The circular stone sheepfolds

Ferreras de Arriba, La Carballeda, Zamora

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The circular stone sheepfolds

Curiosity · Ferreras de Arriba, La Carballeda, Zamora

Image of Ferreras de Arriba, not of the place itself.

Spread across the woodland are preserved yards of circular plan raised in dry stone to shut in the sheep at night and protect them from the wolf, a pastoral architecture today almost without use.

Photo: Carla Andrés Aranhol (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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