A Lost Reliquary Casket from Gwytherin, North Wales

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1758-5309|70|1|40-48

ISSN: 0003-5815

Source: Antiquaries Journal, Vol.70, Iss.1, 1990-03, pp. : 40-48

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Abstract

A reliquary casket known from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century records as that of St Winifrid had been lost by the mid-nineteenth century from the church at Gwytherin in Clwyd. A drawing attributed to Edward Lluyd, published here for the first time, suggests that it was most probably of eighth- or early ninth-century date and was influenced by Anglo-Saxon (JG-C) or Irish (LB) models, if not an actual import into North Wales.