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'The Viking-age Reuse of Insular Metalwork From Northern Britain'

The looting of Christian shrines and reliquaries in the Viking Age is so well-documented that it has been reduced to a cartoonish vision of pillaging heathens. A close look at the evidence for such ‘looting’ tells a different story – or rather a number of different stories. A recent reassessment...

Maldonado, Adrián
Christian shrines and reliquaries, National Museums Scotland collections, Viking-Age Scotland, Insular metalwork , material culture, The Glenmorangie Research Project , and object dispersal and reuse