Very interesting. The lateness of knitting is so strange.
To throw my theory of what they are “actually” for on the heap: gambling.
My first thought was “weird dice”, but wikipedia says they never have inscriptions or numbers. But it also says they are often found with coins and the holes are all different sizes. So you could imagine a gambling game along the following lines: I roll the thing, and the size of the circle I roll tells me the size of the coin you owe me. Then its your turn to roll for the coin I owe you. (I would hope this would just be a component of a more interesting game.)
Very interesting. The lateness of knitting is so strange.
To throw my theory of what they are “actually” for on the heap: gambling.
My first thought was “weird dice”, but wikipedia says they never have inscriptions or numbers. But it also says they are often found with coins and the holes are all different sizes. So you could imagine a gambling game along the following lines: I roll the thing, and the size of the circle I roll tells me the size of the coin you owe me. Then its your turn to roll for the coin I owe you. (I would hope this would just be a component of a more interesting game.)