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Description: | A modern stone dice dating mid 19th century - early 20th century. This dice has a faceted cuboid shape, it is carved so the edges appear chamfered. The faces are aligned so the 1 and 6 are opposed, the 2 and the five and the 3 and 4 are all opposed. There is an engraved, linear, circular border around the faces bearing the the 1 and 2. Within this border there is a concentric ring of dots. There are traces of dot decoration on other faces but the alignment there is more random and does not seem to fit a circular pattern. Traces of a possible black pigment survive within the pips on the 5 and 3 faces. The surface and edges of this dice are worn which obscures some of the detail of the decoration.Crummy (1995:96-7) illustrates an example that has a similar shape with faceted corners, although the style of the numbers is different, it is made from bone. Crummy writes: "the faceted cuboid shape of the die probably implies that the object dates to the late 3rd - 4th century. This shape would probably also allow the die to roll very freely before coming to rest." Egan (1997:1) writes that dice are most commonly known in bone, ivory, lead alloy and occasionally stone such as amber and jet but all the published medieval and post medieval examples do not have faceted corners. Hazel Forsyth suggested a modern date for this example. Dimensions: length: 13.77mm; width: 13.33mm; thickness: 13.79mm; weight: 4.63g.Reference: Crummy, N. 1995. The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-1979. Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd, Colchester.Egan, G. 1997. Dice. Finds Research Group Datasheet 23.Identification by Hazel Forsyth, Senior Post Medieval Curator, Museum of London.
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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