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June 18, 2003
15th-century status symbol...
... or proto pocket-protector, found under the floor and wedged into a drain-pipe at Edinburgh Castle:
The simple counter - which would have been used to play backgammon or as a prototype calculator - may have been dropped by a member of King James IV’s court, as he counted his riches or relaxed with his fellow aristocrats.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 18, 2003 08:50 PM
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One of the things that attracted me to the "old" site were stories like this. I just wish that they (the newspapers, online news sources, etc.) would put up **pictures** of these things as well when they do the story!
Gack!
Posted by: Fred Kiesche at June 20, 2003 03:30 PM