2,000-year-old Roman millstone found with massive penis engraved on it

2,000-year-old Roman millstone found with massive penis engraved on it

The large penis rock was one of several interesting things found by archaeologists working on the A14 project, with others including woolly mammoth tusks and a woolly rhino horn.

A large engraved penis has been found by archaeologists working on an A road upgrade.

The ancient relic engraved was dug up during the A14 upgrade project.

The archaeological team working on Britain’s biggest road scheme hauled out what at first appeared to be a simple millstone, Cambridge News reported.

“The phallus was seen as an important image of strength and virility in the Roman world,” said Steve Sherlock, Highways England’s Archaeology Lead for the A14.

On closer inspection, they realised the 2,000-year-old piece of rock also had a penis carved into it.

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He added that Roman fighters would often wear good-luck charms engraved with penises before entering battle.

The millstone, traditionally used for grinding grains, was recently pieced together by archaeologists MOLA Headland Infrastructure.

Decorated querns, which are stone tools designed to hand-grind materials, are extremely rare.

Only four of the 20,000 millstones discovered nationwide are Roman ones with decorations, according to Highways England.

It is the latest of a string of curious discoveries made by archaeologists working on Highways England’s £1.5 billion A14 upgrade project in Cambridgeshire, which started in November 2016 and was completed in March 2020.

Experts were invited to gather and inspect ancient relics that were unearthed while improvements were made to the road between Cambridge and Huntington.

More than 300 querns and millstones were recovered during the work in 2017 and 2018.

Other discoveries on the 21-mile stretch of road date back to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages to Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.

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Archaeologists have found woolly mammoth tusks and woolly rhino horns, as well as the earliest evidence of beer brewing in Britain, dating back to as early as 400 BC.

They have also discovered only the second gold coin to be found in the country depicting Roman emperor Laelianus, who reigned for about two months in 269 AD before he was killed.