Aries Design: Truly Aries, or actually based on Capricorn?

[eggyk]

Firstly another few examples of that motif. Again, two from rouen.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.     --------   1475-1525 - France, ?
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. -------------  1426-1476 - France N, Rouen
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.    -----------    1490-1510 - France N, Rouen

   

Secondly a couple more examples of a bearded aries: 

   

And then when looking through the forum, I came across You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by ReneZ, about this sheep and goat from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:

   

This goat is now the highest ever rated aries design, despite the fact it is loses score for having a beard and gets deducted an entire extra point just for being a goat.

With this in mind, I am coming to think that there are only two justifications for the assumption that VMS aries is a sheep: 

1) It is between what we assume are pisces and taurus
2) There is no beard

To show how much heavy lifting this beardlessness is doing, here is the following meme which the younger folks here may appreciate: