https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-56113457
couldnt resist.....not a headline you see everyday!
They just don't make millstones like that any more.
Incidentally, I notice in the body of the report that Roman legionaries would wear phallic symbols around their necks to give them strength in battle. Could a variation on this be the origin of the simile 'like a millstone around one's neck'? ???
at least you know which way the direction is pointing......
I thought that there were quite a few Roman penis carvings along the length of Hadrian's Wall?
I'll take your word for it Jim! :)
Quote from: Jim Webster on Feb 19, 2021, 10:43 AM
I thought that there were quite a few Roman penis carvings along the length of Hadrian's Wall?
But on walls, rather than millstones?
Quote from: Erpingham on Feb 19, 2021, 11:21 AM
Quote from: Jim Webster on Feb 19, 2021, 10:43 AM
I thought that there were quite a few Roman penis carvings along the length of Hadrian's Wall?
But on walls, rather than millstones?
could well be.