The very earliest written records, which only date back to about the 1700s in Shetland, suggest that Sheep Rock was still connected to the rest of Fair Isle by a considerably more substantial piece of ground than this narrow, precipitous and crumbling neck of land.
Uploaded to Geograph by Mike Pennington on 0 July 1986
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