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Kristina Killgrove

Roos Carr figures: Creepy 2,600-year-old carvings with 'removable genitalia' and eyes that may have symbolized Odin's soothsayer powers

Two wooden human figurines with quartz eyes and removable phalluses stand on a snake-headed boat.
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Name: Roos Carr figures

What it is: A set of figurines carved from yew wood and quartzite

Where it is from: Roos Carr, East Yorkshire, U.K.

When it was made: Circa 600 to 500 B.C.

This set of carved figurines was discovered in the parish of Roos, on England's east coast. The carvings, which have been carbon-dated to the Late Bronze Age, may have been offered to the god Odin.

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