MACLEAN OF DUART HUNTING (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre She is guarded by 'The

She is guarded by 'The Royal Company of Archers'

describes the figure as wearing the 'regimental' tartan with a red line to distinguish the philabeg from the belted plaid

The sett for this once powerful Lowland family first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum

This was manufactured by Wilsons of Bannockburn as 'Lochiel Tartan' (that is Cameron of Lochiel) and how it became a Munro tartan is a mystery

MACLEAN OF DUART HUNTING (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre She is guarded by 'TheScottish Tartan Society notes: Perhaps dating back as far as 1587 but there is some debate as to the validity of the historical evidence. A charter granted to Hector MacLean, Heir of Duart, in the lands of Islay, the feu duty to be payable in the form of 60 ells cloth of white, black and green colours. This may well account for the colours, the proportions possibly being the invention of the early Tartan documenters, the Sobieski Stuarts. In his book,