The Archaeological journal . rry stones or the like, so that all shall fallinto the hole, is another probable game. I have described the boards most often found, but thereare others, and some of them I can not explain the use satis-factorily, and I shall be glad of help from any who cangive it. At Salisbury there is a chequer board of sixteensquares (Fig. 8) cut on the bench on the Garth side of theEast Cloister walk. It is carefully done, and the alternatesquares are slightly sunk shewing that the squares wereplayed upon and not the points of intersection. The formsuggests something like drau
The Archaeological journal . rry stones or the like, so that all shall fallinto the hole, is another probable game. I have described the boards most often found, but thereare others, and some of them I can not explain the use satis-factorily, and I shall be glad of help from any who cangive it. At Salisbury there is a chequer board of sixteensquares (Fig. 8) cut on the bench on the Garth side of theEast Cloister walk. It is carefully done, and the alternatesquares are slightly sunk shewing that the squares wereplayed upon and not the points of intersection. The formsuggests something like draughts, which we play on aboard of sixty-four squares only because wre use a chessboard. There is not anything in the game to require thatnumber, but it cannot be played on a board of less thantwenty-five. So this of sixteen must have been useddifferently. On the bench, in the second bay from the easternchurch door, in the cloister of Norwich Cathedral, are eightsmall holes in a right line, which were probably used insome same. Fig. Board from Norwich Castle. Sue of Original, 10 in. by 9 in. SCHOOL BOYS IN THE MIDDLE AGES. 325 In works recently carried out at Norwich Castle, severalgame boards cut upon stones have been brought to light,amongst them an in and out board and a mortisboard and one for fox and geese. There is alsoone with a number of parallel lines, divided downthe middle by one line at right angles with the others(Fig. 9). This is for the game of tables, which nowsurvives as backgammon. There were various ways ofplaying, but in all each player had to bring forward hismen from point to point by alternate throws of the diceuntil one of them won by taking his all home or out of theboard. The use of dice is not against the antiquity of thegame, for any boy could make them for himself. 1 remem-ber them being made at school by rubbing down properly selected pebbles would serve as well. Theearliest dice, however, were natural bones, and they areamongst
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