In France and Great Britain, prophylactic research by archaeologists before major works continues to reveal real historical leads.
Near Cambridge, a wheel engraved with a giant penis has just been found near a motorway which is currently undergoing repair.
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Steve Sherlock, director of the archaeological service of Highways England, a company responsible for managing and maintaining highways in the United Kingdom, immediately commented on his team's wonderful find: “
The phallus was a symbol of strength, virility and fertility. in the Roman Empire.
His drawing on a millstone was to bring luck to the peasant and the miller who made the flour with a millstone decorated with a phallic sign.
Legionaries also often wore talismans of this type before fighting.
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Roman millstones found, and authenticated, are extremely rare.
According to experts from Highways England, this archaeological vestige adorned with a penis is only the fourth of its type found in the whole of Great Britain.
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A true mine for researchers, this section of motorway between Cambridge and Huntingdon has also made it possible to uncover mammoth tusks and “
woolly
”
rhino skulls
.
The most extraordinary would be the discovery of the first traces of beer brewing.
A British passion which, according to the first observations of archaeologists, dates back to the 5th century BC.
