I can only add my thanks.

When I compare the lengths people like Penelope Walton Rogers have to go to in order to extrapolate 5th century clothing ensembles based on the position of two or three fragmentary brooches which sometimes preserve a chemical residue giving an impression of a weave - to have potentially important artefacts like this still extant but undocumented is astonishing!

That a garment which would actually fail some modern definitions of the kilt was credibly associated with a Scottish earl (whether true or not) is almost as noteworthy.

Your work continues to evidence considerable diversity in the early forms of an everyday practical garment that is today so often regarded as precisely defined, expensive formal costume, every aspect of the wearing of which is by rights prescribed by a style manual.

Folk-songs aren't opera, and I love them all the more for it. Here's to the folk-kilt!