A14 upgrade: 'Rare' Roman penis carving found in Cambridgeshire

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-56113457

couldnt resist.....not a headline you see everyday!

[Nick Harbud]

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'?   

[Imperial Dave]

at least you know which way the direction is pointing......

[Jim Webster]

I thought that there were quite a few Roman penis carvings along the length of Hadrian's Wall?

[Imperial Dave]

I'll take your word for it Jim! 

[Erpingham]

I thought that there were quite a few Roman penis carvings along the length of Hadrian's Wall?

But on walls, rather than millstones?

[Jim Webster]

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.