Chain

Description

Massive silver chain of 22 double links with a pennanular terminal ring, the ring engraved with designs inlaid with red enamel, from Whitecleugh, Lanarkshire, AD 400-600

Museum reference

X.FC 150

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Chain

Date

6th - 7th century

Style / Culture

Pictish

Materials

Silver, Enamel

Physical description

Silver with red enamel; of double rings; penannular ring engraved with two of the symbols of the sculptured stones

Collection place(s)

Whitecleugh, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Scotland's Early Silver (13 Oct 2017 - 25 Feb 2018)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Celts (10 Mar 2016 - 25 Sep 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Celts: Art and Identity (24 Sep 2015 - 31 Jan 2016)
  British Museum

• Aux marges de l'Europe, l'art des pays celtes et scandinaves ... (30 Sep 2008 - 12 Jan 2009)
  Musée de Cluny - Musée National du Moyan Age

On display

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