Lewis Chessmen
Uig, Lewis, Chess, Walrus ivory, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Middle Ages
978-613-9-77989-5
6139779898
196
2012-01-01
54.00 €
eng
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Lewis Chessmen are a group of 78 12th-century chess pieces, most of which are carved in walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets, although it is not clear if a set as originally made can be assembled from the pieces. They are owned and exhibited by the British Museum in London, which has 67 of the original pieces, and the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, which has the remaining 11 pieces.
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