What Archaeologists Found Buried in 1800s Privy Pits: 32 Discoveries That Reveal How People Really Lived
A brick-lined hole in the backyard is the last place you’d look for someone’s diary. Yet the old privy — the household toilet before indoor plumbing — doubled as the family trash can. Broken dishes went down the shaft, along with dead medicine bottles and anything people wanted gone. Low oxygen and constant damp preserved…