Gaming board

Description

Stone gaming board with an 8 x 8 grid of incised lines, the other side re-used as a whetstone, found at Dun Chonallaich, Argyll

Museum reference

X.HH 971

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Gaming board, Whetstone

Materials

Stone

Physical description

Stone; roughly rectangular with hairline cracks and weathered; incised lines, pecked holows and elongated grooves

Collection place(s)

Chonallaich, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Finder: The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

References

Argyll 6, Mid Argyll / RCAHMS, No XXX

The Picto-Scottish interface in material culture / A. Ritchie; in The Picts / S. Small (ed); Dundee, 1987, 59 - 67