Excavating the birthplace of Scotland's tartan industry

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Archaeologists are uncovering a site where tartan was first made on an industrial scale.

Excavations have so far uncovered foundations of demolished buildingsBBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter

Dr Cook said the site at the Haugh in Bannockburn, Stirling, was home to a smaller mill that was producing at a time of turmoil in tartan-making.Archaeologists are planning further work at the Haugh Dr Cook said rules on wearing tartan were complicated and hit the Highlands, a stronghold of Jacobite support, harder than other parts of Scotland.

He said among orders the Wilsons secured was a contract to supply tartan for kilts for soldiers in Scottish regiments."We are certainly looking at the first industrial scale production of tartan, and the birthplace of tartan design," he said.

 

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