Kells Round Cufflinks - Gents Necklet the puffins may look like

the puffins may look like sad-faced clowns but are really spectacular stunt fliers and skilled fish finders

Her beauty is captured forever in his elegant runes

sister-in-law of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Celtic art retains all its delicate power to this day

A fun yet immediately recognizable stylised owl - perhaps drawn from the barn owl that used to hunt at dusk through the Ring of Brodgar standing stones

Kells Round Cufflinks - Gents Necklet the puffins may look likeAbout 800 AD, under Viking threat, a stunning illuminated manuscript of the gospels was carried from Iona to the Irish abbey of Kells. It remains in Ireland to this day, the supreme example of Celtic high art.