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Object name:
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard

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United Kingdom

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Young Barrera

Object description

The ninety-three game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard were found on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Medieval in origin, they were first exhibited in Edinburgh in 1831 but it is unclear how much earlier they had been discovered. The hoard comprised seventy-eight distinctive chess pieces and fifteen other non-chess pieces, nearly all carved from walrus tusk ivory, and they are now displayed at the British Museum in London and National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh. Another chess piece, which turned up in 1964 and in 2019 was attributed to have come from the original hoard, now belongs to an undisclosed owner.

Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard
Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard

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