Discovering bones in ancient Roman quarry shafts is not unusual—finding a hand-painted dog penis bone, however, is. Bioarchaeologist Ellen Green from the University of Reading in the UK has ...

But one, in particular, stood out: a dog's baculum (penis bone) that had been painted red on one side. "This is the only example I could find of an actual penis having potentially been used as a ...

A bio-archaeologist with the University of Reading, in the U.K., has found an ancient dog's red-painted penis bone along with a trove of other bones, in an ancient Roman era quarry shaft.

Located in Surrey, southeast England, the 2,000-year-old pit contains the remains of 21 people as well as a dog penis bone that appears to have been decorated with red ochre. “There are no other ...

A first-of-its-kind painted dog penis bone has been discovered in a Roman quarry shaft in Surrey, an artefact that archaeologists suspect was used in a long-lost fertility ritual. The 13ft deep ...