Editing Lewis chessmen (section)

== Origin ==
Most accounts have said the pieces were found at [[Camas Uig|Uig Bay]] ({{coord|58.185987|-7.021909|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline}}) on the west coast of Lewis, but Caldwell et al. of National Museums Scotland consider that [[Mealista]] ({{coord|58.104|-7.108|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline}}) – which is also in the [[Uig, Lewis|parish of Uig]] and some {{convert|6|mi|sigfig=1}} further south down the coast—is a more likely place for the hoard to have been discovered.{{sfnp|Caldwell|Hall|Wilkinson|2011|pp=15–19}} The hoard was divided and sold in the 19th&nbsp;century; the [[British Museum]] holds 82&nbsp;pieces, and the [[National Museum of Scotland]] has 11&nbsp;pieces, and the recently rediscovered piece is owned privately.{{sfnp|Caldwell|Hall|Wilkinson|2011|p=11}}

At the [[British Museum]], [[Frederic Madden|F. Madden]], Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts, persuaded the trustees to purchase for 80&nbsp;guineas (£84) the 82&nbsp;pieces which he had been misled into believing was the entire hoard. Madden was a [[palaeographer]], a scholar of early vernacular literature, but he was especially intrigued by these artifacts because he was a chess enthusiast.{{sfnp|Stratford|1997|pp=4–8, 10}}{{sfnp|Sotheby's|2019}} Madden immediately began writing a research paper about the collection;{{sfnp|Madden|1832}} the paper remains informative today.{{when?|date=February 2025}}{{sfnp|Stratford|1997|pp=5, 8}}

There are many medieval chess bishops of various origins in different museums in Europe and US.<ref>{{cite web
 |title = [Site search on chess piece bishop]
 |website = Gothic Ivories Project (gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk) 
 |publisher = [[The Courtauld Institute of Art]]
 |place = London, UK
 |url = http://www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/search/results.html?qs=chess+piece+bishop
 |access-date = 2 July 2019
}} — search returned 18&nbsp;objects
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{{cite web
 |title = Chess bishop probably made in Trondheim, Norway, {{nobr|{{sc|AD}} 1150-1200}}
 |series = Art collection
 |website = metmuseum.org
 |publisher = [[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
 |place = New York, NY
 |url = https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464231
 |access-date = 2 July 2019
}}
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{{cite web
 |publisher = [[Swedish History Museum|Historiska Museet]]
 |place = Stockholm, Sweden
 |title = Chess bishop probably made in Norway or possibly England first part of 13th&nbsp;century
 |access-date = 2 July 2019
 |url = http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=43809&g=1
}}
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