Set Of 8 Metal Boules With Carry Case

A French favourite which is increasingly popular here, especially as a gift item.

Place the jack then compete to get your Boules as close as possible.

Our set of 8 polished alloy Boules is packed in a stylish metal carrying case to ensure you maximise those gift sales.

Complete with wooden jack and measurer.

History Of Metal Boules

The game as we know it today started with the Ancient Greeks. They have been recorded to have played a game of tossing coins, then flat stones, and later stone balls, called spheristics, trying to make them go as far as possible, as early as the 6th century B.C.

The Ancient Romans then modified the game by adding a target which had to be approached as closely as possible. This Roman variation of boules was brought to Provence by Roman soldiers and sailors. A Roman sepulchre in Florence shows people playing this game, stooping down to measure the points.

After the Romans, the stone boules were replaced by wooden boules, with nails to give them greater weight. In the Middle Ages Erasmus referred to the game as globurum, but it became commonly known as 'boules,' or balls, and it was played throughout Europe. This gave rise to the game as we know it today 'Metal boules'.

King Henry III of England banned the playing of the game by his archers, and in the 14th Century, King Charles IV of France and Charles V of France also forbade the sport to commoners. Only in the 17th century was the ban lifted.

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