The most debated artefact of all time - Enigmatic Artefacts

often when we talk about ancient history the word mystery is a bit of a cliche isn't it everything's a mystery archaeologists are always baffled as their number one emotion but within this bag unless my order was totally wrong is probably the most debated artifact of all time I suspect let me [Music] see it's only a bloody Roman do decahedron no I haven't got a clue what it is either oh boy I can't can't wait to use this for its intended purpose now that I am holding it I don't even know there's absolutely nothing illuminated by holding it what were you for what were you for we have absolutely no Roman Source describing what this artifact was for there's absolutely no illustration of it in any artwork from the time period And yet archaeologists and and just the general public have found over 130 of these across Western Europe it's probably the only ancient artifact with its very own subreddit and it's really an absolute Enigma it's it's an enigmatic artifact nothing really has generated this much debate today we're going to look at what we know about these things and take a look at a few of the most popular ideas about them I'll let you know what I think is the most likely explanation and I don't think you're going to like it I don't think you're going to be very happy with me but it's interesting man it's interesting well what the bloody hell are you uh if you'll forgive me I'm just going to do a quick change of headgear I bought this literally years ago thinking I'd use it for a video and I never did and if I don't use it now then it's never going to get used there we go I'm I'm actually a Centurian you see it's a it's a battlefield promotion though so I had to improvise the plumage my wife called me um what's that name Marvin the Martian or something before I left we need to start the story about 1,500 years after these items were produced on the 28th of June 1739 the Royal antiqui Society of London met for one of their meetings at the MIT Tavern on Fleet Street I'm 100% sure plenty of glasses of Port were being quaffed wigs were being powdered I'm sure it was a great time ...