LOCHABER (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre 14th Earl of Rothes who

14th Earl of Rothes who died in 1841

The sett has its source in the MacKenzie tartan used in 1777 by John MacKenzie called Lord MacLeod when he raised a regiment called 'Lord MacLeod's Highlanders'

The Earls of Cassilis built Culzean Castle on the site of an ancient Kennedy stronghold

The pattern was devised from an old MacDonald tartan that is shown in a painting at Armadale Castle

rendered in Lindsay as dark blue

LOCHABER (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre 14th Earl of Rothes whoThought to have been created by Wilsons of Bannockburn. The origin of this tartan is uncertain and it is generally accepted as a district tartan. It is known to have existed as early as 1797. One of the original specimens of this tartan can be found in the West Highland Museum in Fort William. Scottish Tartans Society notes add that it was possibly a Fencibles tartan. Fencibles were a kind of Home Guard formed at the time of the Napoleonic Invasion