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[ku-kal]

well if your all s.c.a veterans you may know Ulfblud The Berserk? he is a good friend of mine and has been fighting for a long while now. anyways thanks for the sites, i cant show the lady them at the moment but im checking them out. i have my own suit of armor that keeps me as protected as i like, the rest is just a good hurt.

[Morris at Heathfield]

For Iron Age Celtic clothing:

http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/clothing2.htm

http://ironage-history.com/brigantia/kit_clothing.htm


Both sites make a point of discouraging the use of "tartan", whatever they mean by the word. There are few surviving examples of tartan cloth from the Iron Age or earlier, but not all of them are as simple as the Falkirk tartan (aka Northumbrian tartan, or Shepherd's check). Those that I have seen examples of are the leggings of the Chärchän man (ca. 1000 BC, in what is now the region of Xinjiang, China), one of the Hallstatt tartans (sometime between 1200-400 BC, in what is now Austria), the Huldremose skirt and scarf (ca. AD 55, in what is now Denmark), and the Thorsberg mantle (ca. AD 200, in what is now Schleswig-Holstein, Germany).

Of those, only the Hallstatt tartan was found in an area that could be regarded as Celtic at the time. However, taking them all together as the Iron Age state of the art, I think the following generalizations can be made: 1) Iron Age tartans contained only two or three colors. 2) Undyed wool (white, brown, black) was as common a color (at least) as dyed wool. 3) Iron Age tartans were not necessarily symmetrical. 4) Iron Age tartans were not necessarily identical in the warp and weft. 5) Iron Age tartans were not terribly complex.

Of course, now that I've said that, one of these days some archaeologist is going to dig up the Iron Age equivalent of Ogilvy of Airlie.