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found at Falkirk, Stirlingshire

Cloth (Fragment)
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This fragment of cloth was stuffed into the mouth of a pot containing a hoard of almost 2,000 Roman coins. The hoard was found at Falkirk in Stirlingshire, about 400 metres north west of the Antonine Wall. It was buried around the mid 3rd century AD.

The cloth has a simple check design, an early form of tartan. Such checks were popular amongst the native population in the northern Roman provinces and seem to have been invented by them in the pre-Roman period.

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