6-inch stone penis was used to sharpen weapons in medieval Spain

A carved stone penis discovered buried within the rubble of a demolished medieval Spanish tower was probably used to sharpen weapons.

Archaeologists with Arbore Arqueoloxía, an archaeology cooperative, discovered the 6-inch-long (15 centimeters) artifact on Could 19 throughout an excavation at an archaeological website within the Ría de Vigo estuary of northwestern Spain. The positioning as soon as housed a medieval advanced punctuated by a tower that had been destroyed throughout the Irmañdino Revolts, a sequence of battles that unfolded throughout the mid-Fifteenth century wherein residents rose up in opposition to the ruling the Aristocracy, archaeologists mentioned in an announcement.