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    NorCalPiper is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    Like i found this one-Its lovely

    reference number: 0630

    tartan name: Unidentified Plaid Barbie's Moss

    type: Artefact/Unidentified

    notes: A plaid wrapped around the body of Barbie, (surname not known) who committed sucide through the loss of her lover in the Napolionic Wars, she was buried in a peat hagg, and was exhumed in the 1990s, see S.T.W.R No 2695.

    source: Plaid from Barbie's Moss

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    Quote Originally Posted by NorCalPiper View Post
    Like i found this one-Its lovely

    reference number: 0630

    tartan name: Unidentified Plaid Barbie's Moss

    type: Artefact/Unidentified

    notes: A plaid wrapped around the body of Barbie, (surname not known) who committed sucide through the loss of her lover in the Napolionic Wars, she was buried in a peat hagg, and was exhumed in the 1990s, see S.T.W.R No 2695.

    source: Plaid from Barbie's Moss
    Right, but as I read the description it appears that the real colors were blue and white, not yellow and green.

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    NorCalPiper is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    Yeah-
    i googled the tartan and saw the blue and white one. Actually a gray blue and gray/white. simple , yet lovely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NorCalPiper View Post
    Like i found this one-Its lovely

    reference number: 0630

    tartan name: Unidentified Plaid Barbie's Moss

    type: Artefact/Unidentified

    notes: A plaid wrapped around the body of Barbie, (surname not known) who committed sucide through the loss of her lover in the Napolionic Wars, she was buried in a peat hagg, and was exhumed in the 1990s, see S.T.W.R No 2695.

    source: Plaid from Barbie's Moss
    It's difficult to tell without access to the specimen but if the dates are right then this would probably be an early C19th plaid as opposed to a typical C18th Highland one.

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