2,000-Year-Old Painted Dog Penis Bone Found in Ancient Roman Ritual Shaft

2,000-Year-Old Painted Dog Penis Bone Found in Ancient Roman Ritual Shaft

Some archaeologists were excavating a quarry shaft just outside of London. They found thousands of animal and human bones dating back to Roman times. Among them, they found the remains of over 280 domestic animals. Pigs, cows, sheep, horses. 70% of those animals were dogs. Among those remains they found one animal bone that stood out among the rest: a dog’s baculum bone that had been partially painted red. For anyone who hasn’t recently brushe…

Given the uniqueness of the finding and its location, it is likely to represent an object used for rituals