This 2,000-year-old Roman dildo is probably... not that

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However, avid yarn spinner Linsey Duncan-Pitt believes that it’s actually a Scottish dealgan or farsadh, a “drop spindle” used to produce fabric by hand.

This is likely a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo, say archaeologists

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Well, you two fight it out among yourselves.

This was discussed in detail in the earlier topic. The drop spindle idea was pretty thoroughly debunked. The video you posted shows something entirely different from the Roman artifact.

This is likely a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo, say archaeologists

The problem with that theory is that we know exactly what Roman drop spindles looked like. Spindle whorls are one of the more common artefact from the Bronze Age on, so every archaeologist working in this area and time period is familiar with them. And unfortunately this isn’t what a Roman spindle would look like. It was much narrower, the weight being provided by a stone or pottery (or in the case of the Romans, often lead) spindle whorl, rather than by the extending width of the wooden shaft. …

This is likely a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo, say archaeologists

Only twenty minutes to go, but I just wanted to add that the term for a device used for darning is a darning egg. A quick google shows many tools like this. [image] It’s not much of a stretch to imagine the handle carved into a phallus as a bit of Roman drollery.

So I’m going with it being a Roman multitool, so to speak, at least until @Doctor_Faustus confirms the possibility of it being a ritual object.