A nearly two-feet high (52 centimeter) erect phallic stone was discovered during an archaeological excavation in Rollsbo close to Kungälv outside Gothenburg. The stone was hidden under a stone packing and originally the archaeologists thought it was a Bronze Age grave.
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There were patches of soot surrounding the erected stone, placed in the very centre of the monument. Two small burnt bones were also found that’s probably animal bones. A hammer stone was found near the phallus. Forthcoming archaeobotanical analyses will perhaps reveal burnt cereals as a result of grain offering, perhaps together with the erection of the stone and within sacrificial fertility rituals.
The stone-setting turned out not to be a grave, but a monument primarily built over a phallos, preliminary dated to Swedish Bronze Age ie 1800–500 BC.
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