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On the 2nd Day of Christmas

The competition gave to me …

A Lewis chess piece,

and a snow capped Avebury.

Innovative archaeological themed Christmas tree topper, designed to look like a rook from the 12th Century Lewis Chessmen. Competition 2nd place.
was one of our two runners up to receive a special edition trowel USB stick with this innovative archaeological themed Christmas tree topper, a rook from the 12th Century Lewis Chessmen.

Related resources

Find out more about the landscape of Lewis and the Outer Hebrides in Vernacular Buildings of the Outer Hebrides 300 BC-AD 1930: Temporal comparison using archaeological analysis by George F Geddes in Internet Archaeology 19.