Archaeologists Found a 700-Year-Old Dagger Symbolically Shaped Like Testicles

Popular Mechanics (!) ^ | 5/15/25 | Tim Newcomb

[martin_fierro]

Archaeologists uncovered a testicle-shaped dagger buried at the ancient Gullberg fortress, and experts believe the dagger, with two round testicle-like decorations on the hilt, was worn, well, where you’d think it would be worn.

Arkeologerna announced the find—via a translated statement—that occurred at the Gothenburg-area fortress, which was built in the 14th century A.D., initially as a simple blockhouse surrounded by a palisade wall. The fortified site on a cliff overlooking the Göta River was likely in response to the nearby Danish-Norwegian castles on Hisingen. The site continued to expand and was used as a fortress for centuries until eventually being replaced by the Skansen Lejonet fort.

The ruins, though, offer plenty of insight into life from the 14th through 17th centuries.

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: dagger; godsgravesglyphs; testicles

[martin_fierro]

h/t to sunky

♀☹☠☣☢★☆ MANGLED GENITALS ☆★☢☣☠☹♂

[cuban leaf]

Only “symbolically”?

[tumblindice]

Paging General Anthony Clement “Nuts” McAuliffe
Please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[Sacajaweau]

Imagination....lol...

I'm looking at the chain link fence posts around the neighbors garden. I'm sure he's a perv.

[leopud]

“... Tim Newcomb is a journalist .... He covers stadiums, sneakers, gear,....”

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no comment.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks martin_fierro. They didn't have TV and the internet back then, so they spent a lot of time on their other hobbies, like whittling their wood.

[Bonemaker]

Pork sword...symbolically,

[RandallFlagg]

AH!
HRC’s weapon of choice.

(I can’t believe I’m the first to mention her on a, “Testicles,” thread!)

[fso301]

Sometimes, a dagger is a dagger... and a pervert is a pervert.

[jerod]

Somebody has a wild imagination... I'm not seeing it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Name it “The Trump Dagger.”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That handle looks a bit suspicious.

[Delta 21]

I bet you get different answers between male/female.

[Ken H]

“8< === SNIP! === >8”

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Yikes!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Next they’ll find a set of replica bull’s testicles that some charioteer hung off the back of his chariot.

[kawhill]

There’s nothing quite like testicular fortitude.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Somebody has a wild imagination... I'm not seeing it.

Someone could claim that many knives or tools (like a garden trowel) might vaguely resemble male genitalia, but that does not mean that was the intent of the designer. In this case, it's quite a stretch to claim that the dagger "symbolically" represents testicles. So now archaeologists are also mind readers?

[antidemoncrat]

Seems to me someone has a great imagination.

[suasponte137]

I’ll bet you they loved fart jokes back then too