That little article is not true in the least. The evidence for the kilt does not go back to the early middle ages, but it definitely predates Rawlinson. It is true that during the Victorian period kilts were romanticized and lots of things were added to them that no one would have even considered during the days of the Bonnie Prince Charlie or earlier.

It's just another one of those silly Englishmen trying to claim to have "invented" something that others used before.

I know many of you don't like smoking or pipes, but I once even read an article in which the claim was made that it was the English who invented the smoking pipe because they "discovered it" in the New World among the savages, and changed the material to clay to allow for easier production. Just a bunch of blather, since it was the Native Americans who invented the darn thing and the first examples of it were pipes traded to the English explorers but made by Native Americans.

But the Rawlinson "myth" has been repeated so many times that it is often taken as true. Don't believe everything you read.