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Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degroot org> wrote:
> Recently, in the latest "Digging for Britain" series on the BBC:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digging_for_Britain
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> I discovered the Roman Dodecahedron:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron
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> ...and I could not help it or I had to model it in POV-Ray! ;-)
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> Edouard Poor's proximity pattern helped to complete it.
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> --
> Thomas
Nice one, Thomas!
It seems interest in these things has picked up recently, possibly due to
another one having been found in England
(https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-dodecahedron-uncovered-by-amateur-archaeologists-in-the-uk).
I wonder what they were for? Decoration? One person thought maybe they were used
for weaving glove fingers, but others say such weaving techniques weren't
developed that early... It is a mystery.
Sam
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