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The famous Lewis Chessmen, now in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and the British Museum in London, are high-quality examples of the type of chessmen the Scandinavians produced. It is believed the Lewis Chessmen were made in Trondheim, Norway, sometime in the 12th century CE toward the close of the Viking Age.
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1. They're named after the Isle of Lewis The chess pieces were found on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, but it's not certain where they were from or how they got to the island. However, a popular theory is that they were made in Trondheim in western Norway around 1150-1200. There are a number of reasons for this.
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The Lewis Chessmen (or Uig Chessmen if you are from the West Side of the island) are among the best loved archaeological treasures in Britain. Copies have long been popular among chess players, giant carvings dot the landscape throughout Lewis, but their global fame is in no small part due to being featured in a Harry Potter film! Discovery
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The Lewis Chessmen are the most famous and important chess pieces in history. They have a long historical and scholarly record, part of which is that they were made in Norway roughly 800 years.
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The Lewis chessmen ( Scottish Gaelic: Fir-thàilisg Leòdhais [fiɾʲˈhaːlɪʃkʲ loː.ɪʃ]) or Uig chessmen, named after the island or the bay where they were found, [1] are a group of distinctive 12th-century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus ivory.
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The eleven chess pieces on display in the Museum of Scotland were part of a large hoard buried on Lewis. The hoard contained 93 gaming pieces in total, including from at least four chess sets as well as from other games. The chess pieces were probably made in the late 12th or early 13th century in Norway. The chess pieces in 3D
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The Lewis Chessmen, or Uig Chessmen, [1] are 78 12th-century chess pieces, most of which are carved in walrus ivory. The hoard was discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. [2] They may be some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets. [3] They are owned and exhibited by the British Museum in London.
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The Isle of Lewis was the most densely populated Viking colony in the west of Scotland. The number of Scandinavian village names are evidence of many Viking settlements - 99 out of 126 still exist today. In 1831 a great hoard of chessmen was found in a stone cist on the beach at Uig. There were at least 93 pieces, skilfully formed from walrus.
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Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard include the ninety-three game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard 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.
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Dating to the 12th or 13th centuries, the Lewis Chessmen are one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made in Scotland. We bring you a taster of some of the intricate walrus ivory and whale bone pieces currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh Published: August 20, 2011 at 9:30 AM
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Description Chess piece, king, crowned and wearing a long mantle over a dalmatic, seated on throne with sword across knees, of walrus ivory, found in an underground chamber in the parish of Uig, Lewis in 1831: Scandinavian, late 12th century Museum reference H.NS 19 Object name Chessman, Chess piece Production information Scandinavia, EUROPE Date
Lewis Chessmen are a unique set of chess pieces found on Isle of Lewis
The story of the Lewis chessmen encompasses the whole history of the Vikings in the North Atlantic, from 793 to 1066, when the sea road connected places we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, the Orkney Islands and Greenland, the Hebrides and Newfoundland.
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The Lewis chessmen ( Scottish Gaelic: Fir-thàilisg Leòdhais [fiɾʲˈhaːlɪʃkʲ loː.ɪʃ]) or Uig chessmen, named after the island or the bay where they were found, are a group of distinctive 12th-century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus ivory.
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Image 1 of 4 Hide image caption previous next The name rook comes from Persian word rukh, which means chariot, and was the original Indian form of the modern castle These chess pieces were found.
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The Lewis Chessmen: a few pieces from a collection of 93 found at Uig on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. / CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images The Lewis Chessmen are the.
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The Lewis Chessmen discovered on the Isle of Lewis were shown in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1831 for the first time. Handcrafted from walrus tusks and whale teeth in the 12th century, these pieces have now become iconic representations of our lifelong passion for war games today. However, their origins are a matter of debate and speculation.