Summary

Five pieces of chain-mail, together with several detached brass rings and groups of rings, probably from Cubbie Roo's Castle, Wyre, Orkney

Accession Number

H.HX 852

Other references

None

Original description

Five pieces of chain-mail, plus several detached brass rings and groups of rings, marked as from Viera Chapel, Wyre, Orkney, but more probably the chain-mail mentioned in RCAHM Inventory for Shetland & Orkney (1946) as coming from Cobbie's Roo's Castle, Wyre.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1968

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Scottish Development Department (Ancient Monuments)

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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