Only one of the diggers — all members of Norton Disney village’s archaeology society — recognized the discovery: It was a Roman dodecahedron, likely to have been placed there 1,700 years ...

A dodecahedron is a circular copper alloy object between the size of a golf ball and a grapefruit characterized by its 12-sided form, with various holes and knobs. But its function remains unclear.

Amateur archaeologists in England have unearthed one of the largest Roman dodecahedrons ever found, but mystery surrounds what it was actually used for. The 12-sided object is one of just 33 known ...

The artifact, known as a "Gallo Roman dodecahedron," is a 12-sided object around the size of a softball, weighing just over half a pound. Made of mostly copper with some tin and lead, it has a ...

A recent discovery in eastern England is now making a splash in the Roman dodecahedron stud world. The Norton Disney Dodecahedron is of the largest and newest Gallo Roman Dodecahedrons ever found ...

A fragment of a mysterious artifact known as a Roman dodecahedron has been found in Belgium. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

For 285 years, Roman experts and archeologists have been perplexed over metal alloy dodecahedron-shaped objects that have no mention in Roman literature or art. In the summer of 2023, amateur ...

Experts have been puzzled for hundreds of years at the purpose of the artifact they uncovered and what is known as a Roman dodecahedron. A matter of interest: The Roman villa site that the ...

“It’s in an excellent condition—considering it’s been buried for 1,700 years,” group secretary Richard Parker said of the dodecahedron, a small, hollow object made from copper alloy and ...

He had stumbled upon a fragment of a 12-sided Roman object called a dodecahedron. It’s likely more than 1,600 years old, according to the experts at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren ...

“We realized within a matter of minutes, that we’d found a very rare copper alloy Gallo Roman dodecahedron, which amazed everybody,” he said. The 12-sided metal object might have been used ...