Ah ....
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The Mersey is considered sacred by British Hindus, and worshipped in a similar way to the River Ganges. Festival of Immersion ceremonies are held annually on the river, in which clay figures representing the Hindu Lord Ganesha, the elephant deity riding a mouse, are submerged in the river from a ferry boat. Followers throw flowers, pictures and coins into the river.
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news.bbc.co.uk]
The Coventry river was the Sowe; and the items found weren't figures of Ganesha (whose annual festival is celebrated in late August-early September). But possibly the religious thinking behind the cubes was connected with the concept of immersion ...
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