Archaeologists in Spain unearthed the sword-sharpening stone with an eye-catching shape in a destroyed 15th-century tower.
A carved stone penis found buried in the rubble of a demolished medieval Spanish tower was likely used to sharpen weapons.
"It is an interesting object because it is unusual and because it materializes the symbolic association between violence, weapons and masculinity, an association that we know existed in the Middle Ages and that is present in our culture today." Darío Peña-Pascual, an archaeologist with Arbore Arqueoloxía, told Live Science in an email.
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