Balmaclellan Mirror

This circular bronze mirror with handle was found in a hoard of bronze objects, carefully wrapped in woollen textile. Decorated bronze and iron mirrors are most common in Southern Britain, but this bronze example is from Balmaclellan in south-western Scotland.

The mirror is part of National Museums Scotland's collection and is on tour across the UK as part of the Reflecting the Celts Spotlight tour.

From Autumn 2015 to Autumn 2016, as part of the National Programme activity around the blockbuster Celts exhibition, the British Museum and National Museums Scotland will exhibit two Iron Age mirrors in a national Spotlight tour to regional museums across the UK. The Spotlight tour explores ties that reached across Iron Age Britain and beyond, connecting northern peoples to a world that was being rocked by a new upheaval: the Roman conquest of southern Britain.

Tour schedule:

24 October 2015 – 4 January 2016: National Civil War Museum, Newark
6 January – 9 March 2016: Littlehampton Museum
14 March – 22 May 2016: Old Gala House, Galashiels
23 May – 31 August 2016: Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
September – November 2016: McManus Galleries, The McManus, Dundee

The major joint exhibition telling the story of the Celts will open in London in September 2015 and in Edinburgh in March 2016:

Celts: art and identity
The British Museum
24 September 2015 – 31 January 2016
www.britishmuseum.org/celts

Celts
National Museum of Scotland
10 March – 25 September 2016
www.nms.ac.uk/celts