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2,000-year-old painted penis bone found in quarry shaft from Roman Britain

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Archaeologists discovered a Roman -era quarry shaft in Ewell , south of London .

They found a dog's baculum (penis bone) that had been painted red on one side.

The bone is the only example of a penis being used as a ritual object.

It is impossible to know why a painted penis bone was put in a quarry shaft nearly two millennia ago .

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