The fantastic Norton Disney dodecahedron intrigues everyone. There are other complete examples, e.g., this one from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.
We still don't know what those mysterious devices were used for. Any suggestions?
@ninawillburger They are time artefacts of #DrWho. Look at these remaining balls! It was a horrible time when the Celts invented their #dodecahedron time changer games, and a Roman soldier forgot to close the teleportation gate. The #Daleks materialised and stole the inner material to build their sense globes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLQH1gKocs
Since then, a certain Gallic village (the game inventor lived there) was angry at all Romans until Dr Who will return and bring back the sense globes!
I just saw a video of someone doing braiding using a Japanese stool like device (marudai) and also a braiding disk (kumihimo), both reminded me of dodecahedrons (the mysterious Roman gadget described in the linked video).
What if the knobs weren‘t there to hold the string but rather to simply keep the braiding strands separated from each other like with those braiding devices? Using it for braiding would also allow to produce braids of different thicknesses, thus the different sizes of the holes would make more sense and it doesn’t matter that the individual devices are of slightly different sizes. Now the question would be why soldiers would need so many braided strings.