I recently had the opportunity to buy a cross belt at a very reasonable price, so I grabbed it...without, I fear, any idea of how, when or where I might wear it. I am not a piper.

MacLeay shows these being used as a baldric, to carry a bladed weapon;


but he also shows the cross belt being worn in a manner that perhaps might be serving other purposes;

I doubt that the chap on the right is carrying that big two-handed claymore slung on his cross belt and I see no scabbard attached to the cross belt of the figure on the left.

So experts, how, when or where I might wear my new cross belt? I do have a basket-hilted claymore, but I cannot see how I would attach the scabbard to the cross belt (the scabbard has two rings that would not fit through the loop in the cross belt (see below):



I'm open to any and all suggestions.