Dungiven and Glen Affric
With the discovery of Glen Affric we now have two quite old bog-find tartans.
It joins the Dungiven trews tartan, not solidly dated but roughly contemporaneous, estimates ranging from the 15th to 17th centuries.
It was dug up in 1956, from a Derry bog, and has since been dubbed the "Ulster" tartan.
This is the best photo I could find of the trews, compared here to the Glen Affric fragment and the tartans derived from them:
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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