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View full screenMonymusk Reliquary consisting of a rectangular casket and lid in the form of a roof, made from wood, copper alloy, silver, enamel and blue glass, decorated with intertwined animals, and possibly once containing a relic of St Columba, from around the 8th century AD
H.KE 14
Scotland, Northern Europe
8th century
Yew, Copper alloy, Silver, Gilt copper alloy, Glass, Enamel
Bronze, silver, wood, copper alloy, glass, enamel
Saint Columba
Grant of Monymusk
Abbot Bernard de Linton
Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Northern Europe
Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe
Celts (10 Mar 2016 - 25 Sep 2016)
National Museum of Scotland
Celts: Art and Identity (24 Sep 2015 - 31 Jan 2016)
British Museum
Caldwell, D.H. (ed), Angels Nobles and Unicorns: Art and Patronage in Medieval Scotland, Edinburgh: NMS, 1982
Youngs, Susan (ed), 'The Work of Angels'. Masterpieces of Celtic metalwork, 6th-9th centuries AD, London: British Museums Publications Ltd, 1989, pp 134-5
Calder, Jenni, The Wealth of a Nation, Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland and Glasgow: Richard Drew Publishing, 1989, pp 26, 74
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Acquired with the aid of the Art Fund