Only a week after archaeologists at the Roman fort of Vindolanda went public with a phallic object discovered at the fort in 1992, another team of archaeologists working near Hadrian’s Wall has announced it has found a phallic symbol.
Border Reivers Archaeology Unit has unearthed a possible panel of rock art beneath peat in the rolling grasslands lying in front of Hadrian’s Wall in a remote part of Northumberland. Archaeologists from the team made the discovery while excavating an earthwork thought to have been made when this part of Northumberland was part of the English Middle March during the time of the notorious Border Reivers.
Digging through the earthwork, the archaeologists dug through a thick layer of peat to the thin prehistoric soil that had formed on the till deposits left behind at the end of the last Ice Age. There they fiound a stone protruding from an ancient ground surface that had been buried, one facet of which was deeply marked, resembling a distinctive side view of a penis and testicles.
