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and the remaining 11 are at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh; at least one chess piece is owned privately.

A newly identified piece, a "warder", the equivalent of a rook, was sold for £735,000 in July 2019. Four other major pieces, and many pawns, remain missing from the chess sets.

Origin and discovery

The Lewis chessmen were probably made between 1150 and 1200 AD. They are commonly believed to have been made in

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