[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ][ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ][ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]Single Comment Isle of Lewis Chess Men. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] 📝Tony Quintanilla wrote on Sun, Jun 3, 2007 05:25 AM UTC:This page was originally meant to simply present some images that could be used with Zillions of Games. Here are some other links that may be of interest: Jean-Louis Cazaux's page on the pieces (he calls the 'Rook' a 'Warder'): http://history.chess.free.fr/lewis.htm Drawings of the pieces, along with other images about the locality where they were found: http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/museum/gallery.htm British Museum page on the pieces (notice the teeth on that berserker 'Warder'): http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/online_tours/britain/our_top_ten_british_treasures/the_lewis_chessmen.aspx Photo of the display at the British Museum (5th image from the top): http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/England2004/BritishMuseum4.html Page from the National Museums Scotland: http://www.nms.ac.uk/lewischesspieces.aspx Wikipedia page on the pieces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen Phenomenal high resolution image (2.86 mb) of the Lewis King from the 2006 Auckland Museum Viking exhibition: http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/site_resources/Vikings/3_-_Lewis_chess_king.jpg
This page was originally meant to simply present some images that could be used with Zillions of Games. Here are some other links that may be of interest: