A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 170
like Hot Cockles in which one of the players GAMES AND SPORTS 135 is blindfolded. The following short notes upon particular gamesor the apparatus with which they were played may be of interest.In connexion with hawking, which fell into disfavour after theCivil Wars owing to the introduction of… … Fig. 104.—Ivory chessmen from the Island of Lewis. in pairs, attached to the jesses or leather thongs by which thehawk was held on the fist. They were often of precious metaland had the names of their owners engraved upon them as in theabove example. Small globular bells were attached to the…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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