A leather 18th century sex toy has been found by archaeologists working in Poland.

The workers were digging at the site of a swordsmanship school in the coastal city of Gdansk when they came across an eight-inch leather dildo covered in rough bristles, according to various reports.

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“It’s quite thick and rather large, made of leather and filled with bristles and has a wooden tip,” the Regional Office for Protection of Monuments in Gdansk’s spokesman said.

“It was found in the latrine and dates back to the second half of the 18th century”.

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The archaeologists also found a umber of wooden swords on the site which led them to believe it was the place of a swordsmanship school.

The toy has been taken away for further examination in Poland.

While the sex toy is old, it is nowhere near as ancient as a 28,000 year old silstone phallus found in Germany in 2005.

At 20 cms long and 3 cms wide the ‘tool’ was found in a famous prehistoric cave and is one of the earliest examples of a suspected sexual toy.

Experts believed it could also have been used as a tool to split other stones.