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Description: | A cast lead die with a non-regular layout. The die is sub-cuboid, with material missing from the corners, possibly from use. The die has incised dots representing the numbers on each face. The layout is non-regular - opposite sides do not add up to 7. The faces are a minimum of 12.2mm long, and a maximum of 13.4mm. The die weighs 20.0g.Dating is difficult. Dice have been found in excavations of Romano-British material (e.g. see "The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9", Crummy, 1983, p96 and fig 102, where the (bone) dice are largely regular in layout). In his Finds Research Group 700-1700 datasheet on "Dice", Egan (1997) states that the regular layout is preponderant among medieval and especially later dice that he has examined, becoming almost invariable on the most recent examples. Egan also notes that in "Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn, the Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman Period", McGregor (1985) states that non-regular arrangements are most common from the 13th century to the end of the middle ages.The die recorded here appears similar to object reference CAM-96DF64 recorded on this database. Without further context it is not possible to closely date the die, which could be from the Roman to the modern period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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