‘Great enigma’: Amateur archaeologists unearth mysterious Roman object

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Amateur archaeologists in England have unearthed one of the largest Roman dodecahedrons ever found, but mystery surrounds what it was actually used for.

A rare Roman dodecahedron was found in Lincolnshire, England last summer and is set to go on display in the Lincoln Museum in Lincoln, England.

“Ours is absolutely in a fabulous condition. It’s complete, undamaged, and it clearly was considered of great value by whoever made it and by those that used it,” Parker said. “So there must have been a very important reason for it to be deposited in the ground in the way that it was.”Parker told CNN there are no descriptions of the dodecahedron in Roman literature, and they have not been depicted pictorially in mosaics.

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