Record ID: LANCUM-4EBF20
Object type: BOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Stone object that has been engraved to use as a Roman merels board also called 'Nine Men's Morris'. The merels board has three squares, inside each other, and connected with four lines. The length is 160mm, the width is 100mm and the weight too heavy for scales. The Rules of Merels, or Nine Men's Morris: 1. At the start, one of the players has 9 white counters and the other has 9 black counters. 2. Take it in turns to place one of your counters on a dot on the board. 3. Try to get three counters in a row, all along one line (the diagonal doesn't count). If you get three in…
Created on: Monday 17th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
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