Think you slept on the knitting theory, maybe because it’s I’m woman I think that but yeaaaa the knitting thing seems revolutionary for me! Especially when you realise you can knit a whole glove in one.
@DavidThomas-gm7gu Jun 5, 2025
They were for putting embers in .they wrapped up a hot ember in clay and when they needed a fire they broke open the clay and used the hot ember .
@valkenburgert Jun 5, 2025
A standard object portraying status would be used constantly in art, easy way to communicate class.
If any theory can be easily rejected it’s that one…
@Fromleftfield01 Jun 5, 2025
Cinnamon and sugar?
@darth_dub_ Jun 5, 2025
Modern day Marines are taught how to sew so they can make uniform repairs in the field, so it wouldn't need to be for chainmail.
@danettekealey7382 Jun 5, 2025
It’s for measuring dried pasta!
@HRashid Jun 5, 2025
Would it make sense that, in its related to the military, the woman kept it after her husband passed and decided to be buried with it as a reminder of her husband?
@receivedwisdom Jun 5, 2025
It's for measuring pasta. There are tools available to get the pasta per person ratio right and this was an ancient model.
@dalel3608 Jun 5, 2025
Another argument against it being a rangefinder is the fact that it wasn't found in other military camps away from Gaul, the Romans would have that everywhere if it was.
@jesp999 Jun 5, 2025
The 3 shakers maybe is because of this. If you study Ayurveda or Tibetan medicine you know more about spices than most Americans, and Tibet and himalyan medicine have better history books of the spice trades and medicines from India. But there are records in Europe but most historians do not get in…
@pineconey Jun 5, 2025
If these were ubiquitous, use in trade seems a good possibility. Could it have been used to gauge the size of a coin, like gold or silver, to know its worth? Different cultures had different coin sizes, and the Roman Empire was vast. This could have been a quick way to gauge when you didn't have ac…
