NJ65SE 26 c.67 51. (also NJ61NE 5.01). The Brecbennoch or Reliquary of St Columba, otherwise known as the Monymusk Reliquary was associated with the lands of Forglen. Shortly before 1211 AD it was granted to the Abbey of Arbroath, along with the lands of Forglen, which were gifted 'to God and to St Columba and to the Brecbannoch'. The ornament of the Reliquary suggests that it was made about 697 AD a century after the death of St Columba. The box and lid are of wood, each cut out of the solid, and encased in bronze, with silver, gilt, enamel and blue glass ornament. In 1314 the Abbot of Arbroath did service with it at Bannockburn, for it was a 'palladium' of Scotland. In 1315 it was made over to the family of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, and must have returned to that place after being in the keeping of the Irvines of Drum from about 1420. It was purchased, for the NMAS from the Grants of Monymusk in 1923. Glasgow Art Gallery ans Museum 1951; W D Simpson 1936. The Brecbennoch, late 7th century, was associated with St Columba and with the lands of Forglen. St Adamnan, 624-704 AD biographer of St Columba and one of his successors as Abbot of Hi, (Watson 1926) was also associated with the lands of Forglen, as witness his chapel (NJ64NE 1). It would appear probable, therefore, that the Brecbennoch was asociated with St Adamnand and his chapel. W J Watson 1926.