To Black Watch or not to Black Watch?

[macwilkin]

Yes I think this is true in general.

But about Black Watch, surely a pre-1715 fragment of tartan showing a similar structure must argue against the Black Watch tartan being a purely new invention at the time of the regiment's raising.

But that doesn't necessarily confirm the theory that it was a tartan specific to the Campbells. Scarlett was refuting the claim that military tartans originated from clan tartans, when in reality, the idea of tartans associated with a specific clan didn't come about until Wilson's of Bannockburn began to name tartans in the late 1700s.

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