Angus HER - NO64SW0079 - ARBROATH ABBEY

Main Details

Primary Reference	NO64SW0079
Name	ARBROATH ABBEY
NRHE Card No.	NO64SW79
NRHE Numlink	35643
HES SM No.	NULL
HES LB No.	NULL
Site Form	Artefact
Site Condition	Complete 2
Details	Gaming board. A Merelles (an ancient game which is the ancestory for Nine Men's Morris) Board was discovered in the course of demolition of a Post- Reformation wall in the Abbey built of re-used masonry. The framework for the game was roughly outlined and probably dates from the thirteenth century. It is in the Museum of Arbroath Abbey.
Last Update	05/10/2023
Updated By	cherbert

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Date of Compilation

Google Map for NO64SW0079

National Grid Reference: NO 6430 4131

Event Details

Excavations and Surveys

Artefact and Ecofact

Date M	Date Y	Artefact Type	Finder	Recovery Method	Condition	Storage Location	Access No.
		GAME BOARD	UNK	Stray Find	Unknown	Other

Ecofact

Samples
Palynology
Ecofact Notes

Monument Types

Monument Type 1	Monument Type 2	Monument Type 3	Order	Probability
BOARDS	MERELLES		A	100