Man, those Vikings knew how to poop!

If you do the math for the conversion from 20 cm x 5 cm, to inches, you'll shriek in terror too.
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Archaeologists are carrying out one of their most delicate projects to date - the careful restoration of 1200-year-old human faeces.

Measuring 20cm by 5cm, the exhibit is thought to be the largest fossilised human excrement ever found.

But despite surviving for well over 1,000 years, the Viking relic was broken into three pieces during a recent school visit to its home, the Archaeological Resource Centre (Arc) in York.

Now team member Gill Snape, a student from the University of Bradford, has the unenviable task of restoring the artefact to its former glory.