Dungiven and Glen Affric

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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.

According to Audrey Henshall in her joint paper on the Dungiven costume, it is likely to date to the late 17th century at the earliest and so is therefore roughly a century younger than the Glen Affric specimen.