Ancient Scottish clothing

[OC Richard]

That's the trouble with historic (written) accounts: they tell us the when and where but they tell little about the what.

Then there are the (apparently) old objects in museums and private collections which tell us everything we could wish to know about the what but rarely tell us anything about the when, or indeed the where.

It's why I rely mostly on iconography. It doesn't tell us as much about the what as we might wish. But iconography alone places the object in situ, giving us the corresponding what, when, where, and even how.