A mysterious Roman object unearthed in an amateur dig has baffled experts as it goes on display in Britain for the first time.
The 12-sided object was discovered in Norton Disney, near Lincoln, in 2023, and will go on display at Lincoln Museum as part of the city’s Festival of History.
Richard Parker, secretary of the Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group, said it was a “privilege to have handled” the dodecahedron, but was still at a loss over what it was.
We do have companies like Chessex that make blingy dice for the D&D and tabletop gaming crowd today, I suppose.
I’ve wondered before whether a similar, but more-rollable looking strange set of artifacts that were also found in Britain might be dice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved_stone_balls
Actually, on second glance, they do appear to have “numeric” engravings at all the places that might settle facing up or toward you. Very interesting.