- A Roman dodecahedron, a mysterious 12-sided metal object, was discovered in the village of Norton Disney in England.
- The artifact is in excellent condition and is larger than many other dodecahedrons that have been found.
- The purpose of these objects remains unclear, but theories suggest they may have been used for ritualistic or religious purposes.
Last time people 3d printed a whole bunch and handed them out to random people to see what they used them for.
Some old British granny used them to knit fingers for gloves and apparently it’s awesome at that.
It wouldn’t be something everyone owned, no one family needs that many gloves.
But one that gets shared amongst a community/village makes it a worthwhile investment. Especially in cold ass England.
There were likely wooden ones as well that didn’t survive, but it makes sense we find heavy duty ones in England of all places.
I wouldn’t say it’s awesome at glove fingers. It can be used to knit glove fingers but other configurations would be much better. It’s like guessing that a Super Nintendo was used as a hammer: yeah, you could use it for that if you tried really hard, but if you were setting out to make a hammer you wouldn’t make it Super Nintendo-shaped. https://www.cracked.com/article_32125_no-these-mysterious-roman-artifacts-probably-arent-knitting-aides.html
Man, cracked used to be a good source of information, not so much in the last 20 years tho…
20 years? They were fine until that broadcasting company bought them in 2016 and highly pushed Facebook video content. That failed and they paid damn near everyone off. I remember their video content being some random old dude for a couple years after and no new articles. They’ve got a writing staff now but their comedic chops are pretty lacking.
When all you got is a Super Nintendo, everything looks like a middle aged plumber.
Except there’s no records of that kind of knitting existing for best part of a thousand years and none of them show the wear you’d expect if that was the use.
Knitting was invented one thousand years after these objects were made.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nålebinding
One style was, this method was invented in 6,500 BC for example.
I wonder if the threads would cause wear patterns that could be analyzed. Or if they were found with fibers around them.