Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921 (1921)
London · leaf 52
hat of St. iVlanchan, or Monaghan. It is of the sameschool as the Tara brooch and the Ardagh chalice, and wasprobably looted in Ireland by Vikings, who brought it to Essexwhen that part of the country was included in the Danelaw. Theoval settings, now missing, were probably of amber and blue glass.…
Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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