Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds

Fig 102 Dice (1:1)
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Notes
the four corner motifs were inscribed, a central one was
added in error and thus to compensate the face that should
have carried five motifs was given only four.
1 Stephen Greep (pers comm) has divided Type 1 into two flat and
countersunk examples. He suggests that flat counters made
their appearance in the 1st century and countersunk counters
in the 2nd century.
2 Roundels of Anglo-Saxon pottery have been recovered from the
Flaxengate site, Lincoln. We should perhaps then be wary of
allocating our four ambiguous counters to the Roman period. I
am grateful to Jenny Mann of the Lincoln Archaeological Trust
for this information and for her help with pottery counters
generally.