York Archaeology Online Collections

Items

• Bone Die
  Lozenge-shaped bone die, of rectangular section. It is unconventionally numbered, with digits represented by a double ring-and-dot.
• Bone Die
  Made from a section of longbone, cuboidal and conventionally numbered, with digits represented by double ring-and-dot.
• Bone Die
  Bone die of rectangular cross-section; spots adding up to 7. Made from a section of large longbone e.g. cattle or horse.
• Bone Die
  A cubic shaped die make out of a section of long bone. The sides are paired: 6+5, 4+3, 2+1.
• Bone Die
  A die made from the end of a cow or horse long bone shaft. The digits are represented by a ring-and-dot motif.
• Bone Die
  A die made from a section of large longbone. It is cuboid and the digits are represented by a ring-and-dot motif. It is conventionally numbered with opposite sides adding up to seven.
• Bone Die
  A bone die made from a section of large long-bone. It is sub-square with a trapezodial section. Digits are represented by single ring-and-dot motifs. It is numbered in a way that was popular between the thirteenth and sixteenth century with one opposite two, three opposite four and five opposite six.
• Bone Die
  A die marked with ring-and-dot numbers. It is roughly square.
• Bone Die
  Bone cuboidal die, with conventional numbering and ring-and-dot digits.
• Bone Die
  A bone die. It is cubodial with ring and dot digits. It is unconventially numbered.
• Ivory Die
  An irovy die made from walrus ivory. It is cuboid with the numbers indicated by ring-and-dot patterns, and is unconventially numbered.
• Bone Die
  Bone die. Good cuboid form, with the edges and corners finely rounded off. Opposed face values total seven, marked variously by a shallow pit or a pit plus one or two fine concentric rings.
• Ivory Die
  Made from walrus ivory, burnt and incomplete, elongated cuboid. The numbers are indicated by ring-and dot, the six face is damaged and is opposite a face with the remains of three ring-and-dot motifs, possibly a five, the rest is broken away. An additional five is opposite a damaged face which is probably blank; the four is opposite the three.
• Jet Die
  Sub-cuboidal, conventionally numbered. Digits are represented by inlaid ring-and-dot motifs. Analysis: tin inlay.
• Jet Die
  Cuboidal, unconventionally numbered, 5:6; 3:4; 1:2. The digits are represented by ring-and-dot moitfs, with inlay.