Since Kilts were the dress of the Highlander not the Lowlanders, It is highly unlikely kilts were seen in the borders cattle raiding in Southern Scotland or England, though the Highlanders quite happily had interclan raids in the highlands when they would have worn their everyday dress, the great kilt.
When Peaceful cattle droving from the highlands the furthest south most would have gone was to the trysts (cattle markets) at Reddingmuir or Stenhousemuir near Falkirk.
It's a further 110 Miles to the border and the only highlanders that would have got that far would have been in Armies, such as Bonnie Prince Charlies' in 1745.
The cattle raiding in and around the Borders was carried out by trousered families ( not clans) such as Elliot, Armstrong, Burns, Young, Pringle, Hodgeson etc many had branches both sides of the border and exploited it to escape the Lords of the Marches (from both sides) who were supposed to police it.
Most of these families date from when the Kingdoms of Northumbria or Bernicia stretched up the middle and eastern of the UK to the River Forth or the Welsh kingdoms of Rheged and Strathclyde that stretched up the west. The families didn't really recognise the modern construction of Scotland or England except when convenient.
Last edited by The Q; 26th September 16 at 03:22 AM.
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