Teetotum
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone
Measurements
25 mm (width); 35 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 667907
Summary
A teetotum in the form of an octagonal block of bone or ivory with a short stem at the top and bottom. Each face of the octagon is marked with dots like a dice, but the number of dots runs from 1 to 8 instead of 1 to 6 as usual.