Playing Quoits in Norham on the village green the orgins of the game go down the centuries.
It has been said that the game was played in Roman-occupied Britain (1st–5th century), or it may have been developed in medieval Britain, perhaps when peasants heated and bent horseshoes into rings and tossed them at iron pegs driven into the ground.
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Location: Norham, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK
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Keywords: engish, game, green, norham, northumberland, quiots, quoits, summer, traditional, village
