By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:37 EST, 29 November 2012 | UPDATED: 13:56 EST, 29 November 2012 Pieces of a medieval board game and 1,000-year-old combs are among rare artefacts uncovered during an archaeological dig that is set to rewrite the history books. Experts have hailed the finds in Co Fermanagh as internationally significant, claiming they shed new light on life in medieval Ireland and its connection with the wider world. Iron, bronze and bone ornaments have been discovered at the crannog just outside Enniskillen, along with the chess-like pieces believed to have been part of the game.
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Experts say it sheds new light on life in medieval Ireland and its connection with the wider world
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Finds such as leather shoes, decorated dress pins, hailed as 'internationally significant'
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Parts of log boats wooden vessels and a bowl with a cross carved on its base also unearthed
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