Paul H. Wrote:
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> "Researchers have been puzzled for more than a
> decade about an unidentified
> plastic shape that keeps turning up in the
> stomachs of seabird chicks on
> Lord Howe Island."
>
> "They are a bit bigger than a human thumbnail and
> always a light colour with
> raised concentric circles."
>
> Can the readers of Maat identify them and their
> source?

In a word: this reader of Ma'at can't, no!

They look a bit like draught pieces - [www.mastersofgames.com]

But the ones shown at that link are wood, and a slightly different configuration ... Plus, it's difficult to imagine bored sailors playing draughts and then chucking the pieces overboard in a temper when they lose ...

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