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Description: | A probable bone or ivory dice, dating to the Post Medieval period (16th - 18th centuries). The dice is a broadly uniform cube with drilled pits forming the numbers on each face. The pits are arranged so that 1 opposes 6, 2 opposes 5 and 3 opposes 4, with each opposing set totalling 7, a convention found on die from the Medieval period and later (Egan, 1997).Similar examples are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database e.g. LON-3E8E62 and LON-36E205.The die is irregular in shape and measures 9.8mm by 10.3mm by 10.6mm and weighs 1.98g.Reference: Egan, G. 1997. Dice. Finds Research Group Datasheet 23.
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