After 25 years of metal detecting, 69-year-old Paul Shepheard made the find of a lifetime when he came across a small bronze artifact with an enormous phallus in the village of Haconby in Lincolnshire ...

A bronze nude figure holding an oversized phallus in his right hand has sold at auction for £2,200 – around double its estimate. Detectorist Paul Shepheard found the Celtic artefact, whose phallus is ...

In November 1897, Alphonse Roux, a farmer, discovered what appeared to be a cloth bag, whose fibers had dissolved over time, buried about 30 centimeters underground while working in a field at a place ...

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