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Lewis Chessmen

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The Game of Kings: The Lewis Chessmen in New York


Posted by Tartan Week on 10 Feb 2012 / 0 Comment



  Don’t miss the opportunity to see one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made in Scotland: thirty four of the Lewis Chessmen are in New York! Discovered in early 1831 in a sand bank at Uig Bay, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, as part of a hoard of walrus ivory; [...]

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