Rob Roy MacGregor's Sgian Dubh?

[JerseyLawyer]

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!

We do the same thing with George Washington, so it's not in any way a unique phenomenon.

History in general is interesting enough in my mind without dressing it up. It's a shame sometimes that, especially for tourists, things tend to skew so much towards Sir Walter Scott and Brigadoon (or the local equivalent, if you're in the US.) I can't tell you how many times I heard the story of Burke and Hare in Edinburgh. You'd think nothing else happened in the City's history.

[Woodsheal]

Highlanders of Rob Roy's era did not carry the sgian dubh as we know it: the small knife worn in the hose top. That practice began nearly a century after his death! The sgian shown in that display case is NOT an early 18th C. piece, as far as I can see.

Rob almost certainly carried a sgian achlais, or armpit dagger, which was a more substantial weapon than the little sgian dubh, which is just a fancy utility knife....