Scottish Late Seventeenth-Century Male Clothing (Part 2): The Barrock Estate Clothing Finds Described

Abstract

The National Museums Scotland collections include clothes and textiles recovered from Scottish peat bogs, examples which are revealing of vernacular, non-elite dress in Scotland. One of these sets, the clothes recovered from peat moss at Quintfall Hill on the Barrock Estate, near Keiss, Caithness and dating from the late seventeenth century are the subject of this article. Although reported in some detail after their discovery in 1920, very little further consideration was given to these clothes. This article, the second of two, describes the finds in more detail and discusses them in the context of other Scottish and Irish finds of the period c. 1650–c. 1750, and draws on recent discoveries about the textiles. Pattern-cutting analyses of the garments are also presented as diagrams and discussed in relation to the cut and tailoring of surviving examples elsewhere.