"Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found" Topic

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Tango01	07 Apr 2020 9:21 p.m. PST
…on Lindisfarne. "Small glass ‘crown' thought to be rare archaeological link to first Norse raiders It is not large – the shape and size of a chocolate sweet – and might easily have been discarded as a pebble by a less careful hand. But a tiny piece of worked glass unearthed during an excavation on Lindisfarne has been revealed to be a rare archaeological treasure linking the Northumbrian island with the Vikings, from the very beginning of one of the most turbulent periods in English history…" link Main page link Amicalement Armand
Roderick Robertson	08 Apr 2020 9:57 a.m. PST
Dammit Sven! You lost the crown, and now we can't play the game! We're just going to have to go back again and again until we find it.
Tango01	08 Apr 2020 12:46 p.m. PST
(smile) Amicalement Armand
bsrlee	09 Apr 2020 5:58 a.m. PST
You can get reproductions of that from Tillerman Beads in the UK, he has currently sold out but will be restarting next week.
Tango01	09 Apr 2020 12:09 p.m. PST
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand
UshCha	09 Apr 2020 11:54 p.m. PST
Great link, I wounder if this also heralded the long running Anglo Saxon Fued between board gmers and Wargamers ;-). Thanks for the link.
Tango01	10 Apr 2020 11:27 a.m. PST
No mention my friend… Amicalement Armand

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