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Description: | A Post Medieval bone dice possibly 16th - 17th century. The holes have been drilled into each surface so that the central section is a deeper cut that the outer; there is a stepped difference. There may have been another material inlaid into the deeper recesses although there is no surviving evidence of this. The sides all total 7, 1 opposes 6; 2 opposes 5; 3 opposes 4. One corner appears to be incomplete and the three holes from the three adjacent faces slightly overlap.Dice are most frequently made in bone or ivory, more rarely examples in lead or lead/tin are encountered (Egan 1997:1). The enduring convention of placing the numbers 1-6 so that those on opposite faces total seven are preponderant among medieval and especially later dice. Non-regular arrangements are said to be most common from the 13th century to the end of the middle ages. For later medieval pieces a non-regular layout is sometimes a symptom that the dice is a false one.On Roman dice opposite sides total 7.Geoff Egan also notes that without a context it is exceptionally difficult to date dice.Dimensions: length: 11.58mm; width: 11.51mm; thickness: 11.53mm; weight: 2.78g.Reference: Egan, G. 1997. Dice. Finds Research Group Datasheet 23.
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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