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Carved in Mystery: A Competition to Explain the Enigma of Scotland’s Ancient Stone Balls (theorkneynews.scot)
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It appears that the mysterious dodecahedron of roman west europe has been solved - it makes chainmail. But what were the carved balls for?

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scottish softball?

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Definitely a hard ball. And not sure how well it would connect being carved