I've seen a couple of recent articles about historical things that have been recently found in Britain.
In this case, they found one of the cricket clickers that the Allies used during the D-Day preparation and invasion, just before the 75th anniversary of D-Day. That's good timing.
Ingenious clicker gadget that kept Allied troops safe in Normandy and was immortalised in The Longest Day is found a stone's throw from factory where it was made 75 years ago
It wasn't found lying around on the ground or anything - it was in the stuff that a guy from Britain who fought in the battle kept after the war.
Now, they also found a chess piece. But not just any chess piece - this is a piece from the Lewis Chessmen set. Which admittedly I didn't know anything about until I read the article.
The £1m chess piece that languished in a drawer for FIFTY years: Family is stunned to learn that tucked-away trinket is long-lost Lewis Chessman that went missing for two centuries
The newly discovered piece (this was in somebody else's stuff, in this case, the stuff an antique dealer kept) is a 'warder', which is what the rook in modern chess used to be called.
Here's a picture of the piece.
It kind of reminds me of the "Hound", Sandor Clegane, from "Game of Thrones".
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