It’s not a darning tool, it’s a very naughty toy: Roman dildo found
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#69164)
Two thousand-year-old object found at Roman fort in Northumberland in 1992 has been reassessed by archaeologists
Archaeologists believe they may have found the only known lifesize Roman dildo, discovered in a ditch in what were the farthest northern fringes of the empire.
If it was not used as a sexual implement then the 2,000-year-old object may have been an erect penis-shaped pestle, or it could have been a feature from a statue that people touched for good luck.
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