Object Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
1960.024.001 |
Object Name |
Quoit |
Description |
Eight quoits are heavy iron rings have a flat base and a slightly raised top. The holes in the centre of all the quoits except (e & g) are roughly keyhole shaped. Quoits (e & g) have circular holes. Two of the quoits (b & h) have added weights (holes have drilled into the underside and filled with lead). |
Date |
1930 |
Date |
1940 |
Dimensions |
Dia-21 cm |
History |
Quoits is a game in which flattened rings of iron or circles of rope (both called quoits) are thrown at an upright pin (hob) in an attempt to ring it or come as near to it as possible. Quoits may have been played in Roman-occupied Britain (1st-5th cent. AD), and it may have given rise to horseshoe pitching. (Encyclopedia Britannica) |