History Channel: Did they use that to communicate with Ancient Aliens? We might never know the full truth!
The holes are all slightly different sizes. It’s for measuring spaghetti servings
Knowing the Romans, it might be for measuring cock girth of their house boys.
Sorry I prefer a size 3 not a size 6. What am I? Some barbarian like the Phoenicians?
I wonder if a wooden dowel with a matching engraving wouldn’t fit there or something.
I’m just waiting for some guy to come forward and explain that he’s been locating dig sites ahead of archeologists for years and planting these around just to fuck with them.
No need, it’s been solved basically. You knit gloves with them. Or rather the fingers. They are only found in colder climates / up north. There are videos of people using replicas of them to knit gloves.
Why not make it out of wood then?
I heard those are great for protection against Mindflayer larvae.
Be careful, though, they sometimes have mindflayers inside them who want to have sex with you.
This is a resonator. You put one or more fossils inside it to alch gear with a guaranteed set of affixes.
An ancient self sealing stem bolt analogue.
I saw someone using one of these to weave or knit or something, and it seemed to me a pretty good explanation.
Edit: If it’s truly such a mystery, is it at all possible these only exist because they looked interesting? Just a knick-knack for your shelf?
“Did you see those things Caius Cosades is making down at the den? Not much you can with them, but they’re neat.”
It’s not as though we don’t make pointless and artistic things today.
Except those objects were found in coin hordes and the graves of rich aristocrats, and must have been too valuable to be a simple knitting tool.
And for some reason, this style of knitting would have then disappeared until it was reinvented the 16th century.They also almost never show any signs of wear and tear beyond having been buried for centuries.
Models for ones made out of more brittle material like fired clay or wood?
Maybe it was the original NFT
If it’s truly such a mystery, is it at all possible these only exist because they looked interesting? Just a knick-knack for your shelf?
It’s one of the most convincing theories, but also a bit unsatisfying. The question then becomes, why they were made in relatiely large numbers (so that hundreds could be found) with that very specific shape in different parts of the empire.
Caius Cosades
Best game ever
I see DND is older than most people think!
I’m telling you, it’s a decorative lamp.
Blacksmith. Benchy.
It’s a D12, looks like people played RPG long before it was cool
Romans wielding a great axe
Goths = Orcs Celts = Pixies Romans = Humans Egyptians = Dwarves Slavs = Fairies Greeks = Elves
Once they are all unearthed, the Old Ones shall return to reclaim the Earth.
Dildo. That’s my default hypothesis for anything unexplained.
Example:
- Who’s Satoshi’s father? – Dildo.
It’s clearly an ancient fidget toy. Those romans had a headstart on ADHD, how much knowledge has been lost /s
From the thumbnail I thought it was a man size artifact… no way it was used for knitting… then I entered the article and saw its actual size.
This thumbnail is a bit misleading – I saw two workers just a little taller than an Roman dodecahedron?!! That must be the biggest ever discovered!!! Severe disappointion followed suite…
