Uig Chessman 2006

The Lewis (Uig) Chessmen, a set of 12th century chess pieces carved from walrus tusk, were found on Uig Sands in 1831. The video shows a carved wooden chessman being placed, close to where the originals were found, to commemorate the event.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Uig
• Isle
• of
• Lewis
• Chessmen
• Dougie
• Maclean
• Stephen
• Hayward
• short
• film

[MrIsaac2020]

My website on my profile has lots of pictures of the terrain and area where the chess set was found. Hoping to add a video here as well.

[Ronbo710]

Beautiful!!  Would like to see the whole set in the hills behind him :).

[FabianBajorat]

the ram, or was it female?, seemed rather disturbed about this, lol.

planning on writing a short story about the chess men, maybe I'll include a reincarnated sheep, lol

love the figures, they're magical.

[TheFloydsta]

i pictured it being found in the sand by a rocky coast

[florinbaiduc]

I'm a real fan of the Isle of Lewis chess set... Thank you for this video

[grinninggnome]

I really appreciated this video. I had a different idea what the terrain looked like where it was found and now I know the better! Thank you.