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Beautifully crafted Roman dodecahedron discovered in Lincoln – but what were they for?
Samantha Tipper, 2024. The Conversation.
Account of the Norton Disney find of June 2023 by a member of the Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group: an undamaged example about 8 cm across and 245 g, the 33rd from England, with XRF composition, and a summary of the rival explanations.
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The main source for the Norton Disney object and the size of the corpus (about 130).
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Tipper, S. (2024). Beautifully crafted Roman dodecahedron discovered in Lincoln – but what were they for?. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.3gxryddu3
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Tipper, Samantha. “Beautifully crafted Roman dodecahedron discovered in Lincoln – but what were they for?.” The Conversation (2024). https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.3gxryddu3.