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dwarf:

--- Quote ---But interesting that it is still not really clear what they have been used for :-\.

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I still favour the Roman knitting nancy  ;D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spool_knitting

One puzzling and new information for me reading those articles: these objects have only been found in northern Europe - none in the southern or eastern parts of the Roman Empire

regards
Klaus

Bill W4:
My wife agrees with the knitting theory and I find it odd that they only turn up in northern Europe.  Not so much Roman I think.  However it took a good bit of skill to make them, whoever did.

Jan P:
Fighting a little bit back: in southern Europe they had olives and so oil for their oil lamps. In the north, they had not.
And, yes I looked it up, candles exist since 500 BC.

Bill W4:
I have no idea, but it seems a rather elaborate candle holder for those times.

Jan P:
Well, seeing the first picture underneath, I would have argumented: "And still usable when the wax (or rather, the tallow) was completely dripped inside!"
But the specimen, right on the foreground of the second picture, shoots my idea definitly to pieces, I see  ::).

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