Oldest Scottish tartan ever found was preserved in a bog for over 400 years

The world’s oldest surviving Scottish tartan is over 400 years outdated and, although now light, as soon as sported inexperienced, brown, purple and yellow, a brand new evaluation of the centuries-old cloth reveals.

The tartan was present in a peat lavatory in Glen Affric — an space within the Scottish Highlands carpeted with woods, lakes and moorland — within the Nineteen Eighties, however that is the primary time that scientists have examined it with dye evaluation and radiocarbon testing.