Clan MacGill Collection

The historian George Black suggested the name comes from the Gaelic Mac an ghoill, 'son of the lowlander' or 'of the stranger'.…

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About Clan MacGill

The historian George Black suggested the name comes from the Gaelic Mac an ghoill, 'son of the lowlander' or 'of the stranger'. The Makgills built Oxenfoord Castle, and Sir James Makgill became Viscount of Oxfuird in 1651. Their seat, Oxenfoord Castle in Midlothian, began as a late sixteenth-century tower house, later incorporated by Robert Adam into a new house for the Dalrymples in 1780-82

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Modern or Ancient?

Same pattern, different dyes. Modern uses deep, saturated colours; Ancient uses the softer tones associated with natural dyes.