Lewis Chess Set - 3D View

The British Museum

by The British Museum
published on 05 January 2026

“These chess pieces form a remarkable group of iconic objects within the world collection of the British Museum. They were probably made in Trondheim, Norway, about AD 1150-1200. At this period, the Western Isles, where the chess pieces were found, were part of the Kingdom of Norway, not Scotland. It seems likely they were buried for safe keeping on route to be traded in Ireland.” http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/news_and_press/statements/the_lewis_chessmen.aspx View individual higher resolution versions of these models here: https://sketchfab.com/britishmuseum/collections/lewis-chessmen

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The British Museum has released this image under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. You can read more about the British Museum and Creative Commons here.Original 3d image by The British Museum. Uploaded by Jan van der Crabben, published on 05 January 2026. Please check the original source(s) for copyright information. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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