Ivory artifact "Louise Chess Queen" discovered on the island of Lewis in Scotland
Ivory artifact "Louis Chess King" discovered on the island of Lewis in Scotland
The chess pieces are now collected in the British Museum and have been exhibited in multiple exhibitions. This chess piece is part of the Louis Chess, a medieval chess set made of ivory, including pieces for kings, queens, bishops, knights, castles, and soldiers. This is a bishop chess piece made of ivory, standing with a damaged sword on the knee, wearing a crown with crossed stripes on the head, and decorated with three vertical panels on the back of the throne, including clover, geometric interweaving, and wave scroll design.
Ivory artifact "Louis Chess Bishop" discovered on the island of Lewis in Scotland
The chess pieces are now collected in the British Museum and have been exhibited in multiple exhibitions. This chess piece is part of the Louis Chess, a medieval chess set made of ivory, including pieces for kings, queens, bishops, knights, castles, and soldiers. This is a bishop chess piece made of ivory, which is standing, wearing a vestment and shawl, wearing a bishop's crown with tassels on the head, holding a scepter and a book. The chess piece was made around 1150-1200 AD.
Stone oil lamp base unearthed at Broch of Gurness
Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age village in the western Orkney Islands, Scotland, about 2,000 years old. This roughly chiseled lamp, once filled with oil, could once provide light from a slow-burning wick. Found in an Iron Age settlement Gurness of Broch.
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