THE research on which this book is based has already been published as:
Caldwell, D. H., Hall, M. A. and C. M. Wilkinson (2009): ‘The Lewis Hoard of Gaming Pieces; A Re-examination of their Context, Meanings, Discovery and Manufacture’, Medieval Archaeology 53 (2009), 155-203. More detailed arguments are presented there for our conclusions, and also sources for our information and assertions.
Readers may also like to read the following:
Hall, M. A. (2007): Playtime in Pictland: The Material Culture of Gaming in Early Medieval Scotland (Rosemarkie: Groam House).
Hamilton, J. R. C. (1956): Excavations at Jarlshof, Shetland (Edinburgh: HMSO), 76, and pl. XIIIb.
Macdonald, N. (1975): The Morrison Manuscript. Traditions of the Western Isles by Donald Morrison, Cooper (Stornoway: Public Library).
McDonald, R. A. (1997): The Kingdom of the Isles. Scotland’s Western Seaboard, c.1100-c.1336 (East Linton: Tuckwell Press).
McLees, C. (2009): ‘A carved medieval chess king found on the island of Hitra, near Trondheim, Norway’, Medieval Archaeology 53, 315-21.
Murray, H. J. R. (1913): A History of Chess (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Postgate, O. (2000): Seeing Things, An Autobiography (London: Methuen), 219-20.
Robinson, J. (2007): The Lewis Chessmen (London: The British Museum Press).