GRANT HUNTING (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'N' was in use before 1745

was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre and placed in the Museum of Antiquities (now incorporated into the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers St

an Australian of Skye descent

Earl of Inverness

Current Status: ON WEAVE

GRANT HUNTING (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'N' was in use before 1745Sir James Grant of Grant raised two regiments in the last decade of the 18th century: the 1st Strathspey Fencible Regiment and the 97th Regiment of Foot. Both regiments almost certainly wore this tartan but it was documented simply as 'Grant' in the Wilson's 1819 Key Pattern Book.