Can anyone tell me what the name of the game pieces are that were found buried in the mud a few years ago?

Question

I think Fairport Convention have a song about them called 'The Game Pieces' I need to know their exact name.

Answer 1

It was a monopoly set, and what they found was the hat, the shoe, 3 houses, 2 motels, and some dice.

Answer 2

Yes it is on their 'Wood and the Wire' album of 1999.

They are singing about the The Lewis Chessmen, a set of beautiful Viking chess pieces probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200

The were not found in the mud, but on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks.

They were found in the vicinity of Uig on the Isle of Lewis some time before 11 April 1831, when they were exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries at Scotland. The precise find spot seems to have been a sand dune where they may have been placed in a small, drystone chamber.

You can see them in the British Museum, And I had the pleasure of doing the educational stuff when around thirty pieces went on tour last year, and they visited Gosport Museum.

Answer 3

Jumanji?

Answer 4

They were scrabble tiles...we buried 'em when we were kids.

Answer 5

JUMANGI

Answer 6

JAMUNJI