Quote Originally Posted by Redshank View Post

I don't see there being a problem with the penannular brooch, things like that where handed down from father to son, and it's perfectly suited for the use to which it is being put.
By that reasoning, you wouldn't have a problem with him carrying a Viking sword with his outfit. There are no period descriptions or images of such brooches in use with Highland dress during the Jacobite period, for the simple reason that they were centuries "out of style"....