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Photo Special: Privy Unearthed
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August 6, 1999
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On the last day of the official field school, the find of the season emerged.
| A number of chamberpots were found dumped in the privy. (Courtesy Brooklyn College) |
![[image]](https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/lott/jpegs/lott77.jpeg)
Along the angled line on the trench floor (above) excavation uncovered a narrow wooden beam. The darker deposits are night soil, fecal matter. Students (right) work in the privy. (Courtesy Brooklyn College) | ![[image]](https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/lott/jpegs/lott78.jpeg) |
Medicine bottles and even the stoneware bowl of a pipe laid buried in the privy.
(Courtesy Brooklyn College) |
Click here to read the journals of the students who discovered the privy.
Discussion Question:
Why are privies so important to archaeology?
Lott House Main Page |
Field Notes on the Privy |
Bulletin Board
© 1999 by the Archaeological Institute of America
archive.archaeology.org/online/features/lott/fieldnotes/privy.html |
