This gaming board is scored with lines for a medieval game of merelles, or nine mens morris. Each player would have nine gaming pieces that would be placed at 24 points on the board. As with the modern game of checkers, the player’s objective would be to move around the board until all the opponents’ pieces were captured.

Today (10/04/2019) Colin Mayall updated his Perthshire, Crieff, Strathearn Local History blog with a very interesting article on the Weavers of Strathearn (image is from Colin's blog).

Another wet and cold day but the visitors kept coming, which was very gratifying and we had twenty new Members sign up at the desk. We were sorry when the display closed at 4:00 but we are making plans for the next one. The photographs are all from Friday, as are those in Saturday's Courier. However, Colin Boag kindly posted a huge number of images on FaceBook on the " I grew up in Crieff (or live there now)" for people who could not make it to the event: https://www.facebook.com/colin.boag.7/media_set?set=a.2371325416235156&type=3

Not a nice day for the second day of the pop up museum but that did not keep people away. If anything the rain and cold helped as people flooded in throughout the morning, many from out of town.