The team have been examining artefacts that were unearthed on Britain’s biggest roads. It is fair to say they could not believe it when they found a 2,000-year-old millstone decorated with an enhanced penis.
Steve Sherlock, Highways England’s Archaeology Lead for the A14, said: “The phallus was seen as an important image of strength and virility in the Roman world.”
He told Cambridgeshire Live that Roman fighters would often wear good-luck charms engraved with penises before entering battle.
This is the latest in a series of bizarre discoveries found 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 then invited to investigate the ancient relics found during the work on the road between Cambridge and Huntingdon. More than 300 querns – a type of stone tool – and millstones were recovered during the project.
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