{"id":911,"date":"2011-02-18T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T11:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/BurravoePrimarySchool\/?p=911"},"modified":"2011-02-18T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T18:46:30","slug":"the-lewis-chessmen-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/BurravoePrimarySchool\/2011\/02\/18\/the-lewis-chessmen-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lewis Chessmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On Wednesday we went to the Shetland Museum to see the Lewis Chessmen that were found on a beach on Lewis. 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My favourite one was the Berserker Warder that was biting his shield but they didn\u2019t have him, but they did have a picture of him. I found out that the Berserkers took drugs before the battle to give them courage and to scare the enemy. I learned that they were about 1000 years old. I found out that they were made out of walrus tusks and repairs made out of whales tooth. We got to draw our favourite one, mine was the Berserker. \u00a0We got split up in two groups, I was in the big ones group. 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