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The earliest horse remains found in the area now covered by Britain and Ireland date to the Middle Pleistocene.Two species of horses have been identified from remains at Pakefield, East Anglia, dating back to 700,000 BC. [1]
More than 70 horses were found to be buried here, the researchers said, and the site was dated to between 1425 and 1517, the late medieval and early Tudor period.
This is a list of some of the breeds of horse originating in the British Isles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Twelve of the native breeds are considered rare and are marked with a "†" symbol. [ 4 ] [ 3 ]
In horse shows mountain and moorland classes are divided into two subsections - small breeds and large breeds, although the four Welsh types are often shown in their own classes. They are overseen by the relevant breed society and by the National Pony Society .
Blackie (army horse) Breed of Horses Act 1535 & Horses Act 1540; British Carriagedriving; British Equestrian Trade Association; British Horse Industry Confederation; British Horse Society; Byways and Bridleways Trust
In all, the nine graves on the 3.2-acre site show the skeletons of 28 horses, all buried roughly 2,000 years ago. Located in Villedieu-sur-Indre in central France, that first pit offered up the ...
The Dales Pony is a British breed of pony or small horse. It originated in, and is named for, the Dales of Yorkshire in northern England. It is one the nine native mountain and moorland pony breeds of the United Kingdom, and belongs to the broader Celtic group of ponies which extends from Portugal and northern Spain to Scandinavia.
Species is effectively extirpated, with no maternity sites found in the UK. Wild horse: Equus ferus ferus: Perissodactyla: c. 10,000 BP [33] Re-established proxy in the form of free-roaming domestic horses [34] Gray whale: Eschrichtius robustus: Artiodactyla: c. 598 BC: Moose/elk: Alces alces: Artiodactyla: c. 5600 BP [35] *Siberian roe deer ...