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| Redshank circa 1607 |
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Photo is of Irish archaeologist and actor, Dave Swift, in a recent BBC production portraying a Scottish Redshank in Ulster. There are eye witness accounts of the Redshanks in west Ulster dressed in the iconic kilt, or féileadh mór. This is how one of our McCains would have looked at this time. The sword is the Highland style two handed sword called a claíomh mór. The coat of mail was still in wide use with Redshanks and the helmet is a morion, usually of German or Spanish manufacture.
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