Rob Roy MacGregor's Sgian Dubh?

[Jock Scot]

I was at Abbotsford earlier this year and am fairly sure that the Sgian Dubh on the right of the case is (allegedly) Rob Roy's. It is just below his (alleged) purse. His sporran is also on display but he appears to have been a man of many sporrans - I have now seen about five in different locations across Scotland! I say this as a word of caution about the provenance of such artifacts. On the other hand, they are from the correct era.

Forgive if I am a tad cynical too, don't forget Sir Walter Scott was a professional romantic. It's a bit like BPC has slept in just about every house in the Highlands, planted every tree over 10ft high, hidden in every cave in Inverness-shire, OH and I was once earnestly informed by one American that he(BPC) built the Forth rail Bridge to get his army across!

Which is all a real shame, because sorting fact from fiction in Scotland that is so full of red herrings, that the truth I fear, will never be found in many cases.