Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century.

Photo by Kevin Wilbraham.

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    2 days ago

    That’s a berserker, an early chess piece that could move like a queen and knight combined, three times at once, and captured everything within a three-square radius. For obvious reasons, it was soon replaced by pieces with more reasonable restrictions.