Email this article Photo Special: Privy Unearthed August 6, 1999 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) 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) 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 www.archaeology.org/online/features/lott/fieldnotes/privy.html Share this page:   Share Stay up-to-date on news and new features on our website. Click here to sign up. Buy back issues: See what's available!

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