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Description: | Incomplete Medieval bone gaming piece for a chess set, AD1150-1350. Identified in both Egan 1998 no.956 and Chapman 2005 Fig.2 No.1 as a King piece, this example is almost identical to those illustrated. It is a cylinder of bone that has been hollowed and polished. A trianglular shape has been cut into the front of the piece to represent the mahout (Egan 1998) and three rings have been scored around the top of the piece. There are two scored lines to emphasise the mahout and two scored rings around the base. The cylinder is decorated with ring and dot decoration with four rings on the front, three in a triangle and one above connected to the top dot by a line, there is then a single dot followed by a repeat of the first pattern. This pattern is repeated four times around the cylinder as is shown in Egan 1998. On the top surface of the cylinder, around the central hole there are five more ring and dot motifs. The central 'rider' part of th piece is missing now. Egan dates these pieces to the 13th and 14th century based on their excavated contexts, Though MacGregor 1985 favoured earlier dates of 12th-13th century.Height: 29.23mmWidth: 19.15mmWeight: 10.68gDiameter: 24.36mmRef:Chapman, A. 2005 Medieval stylised Chess Pieces : The Finds Research Group Datasheet 32.Egan, G. 1998 The Medieval Household - Medieval finds from excavations in London. HMSO. LondonMacGregor, A. 1985. Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn. The Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman Period. Croom Helm, London and Sydney.acGregor,
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