NISBET (ANCIENT) DISTRICT is owned by the National

is owned by the National Trust for Scotland

Also known as The Falkirk Tartan because of the discovery of such a weave in the neck of a jar containing Roman coins buried about 260 A

It is difficult to choose one MacDougall sett to be the 'Usual modern version'

rendered in Lindsay as dark blue

MacPhedran

NISBET (ANCIENT) DISTRICT is owned by the NationalThis is the sett that appears in the Vestiarium Scoticum as MacIntosh (Vestiarium Scotorum (1842) 87, Plate XXXI). There is no historical connection between the names Nisbet and MacIntosh to explain this, and it is interesting to note the similarity with the Dunbar tartan (where the white stripes are black) which also originates in the Vestiarium. The Nisbets came from the old barony of Nisbet in the parish of Edrom, Berwickshire, as early as 1160.