Castellated Hose

[figheadair]

Wow they did let their imagination run wild with the Murray portrait! I didn't recognise it.

Obviously taking original period iconography, embellishing it, and presenting the embellished version as historical, flies in the face of proper methodology.

Those re-imaginings do give us a bit of insight into the way their minds worked: play fast-and-loose with the facts, and present their own creations as being historical.

In any case the Allens' creations get us no closer to the origin of the castellated hose.

Here's another of their fantasy images in which the (plain) castellated hose are clear. I can't haven't worked out what the source for this one was but it has elements of Waitt's Champion and Piper to the Laird of Grant.