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how can you locate a privy? - 5/20/2004 11:47:36 PM    hokeypix   Posts: 28 Joined: 5/20/2004 Status: offline I just found this site and am having a great time reading the posts. I'm in upstate NY and there are tons of old houses around here. I may be able to ask some locals if I can dig in their yards - but here's the question: how can I figure out where the privy was? Is there a general rule of thumb? i.e. out the kitchen door, etc? Any signs to look for? Thanks! Post #: 1

RE: how can you locate a privy? - 5/21/2004 12:18:36 AM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Hi hokeypix, and welcome to the forum! Where are you from in NY? I grew up in Pine Bush, NY. I already posted a reply to your question about the Erts bottle. My father found mine about 35 years ago on a construction site in Poughkeepsie itself. Stick around, this is the best bottle site on Earth!! Opps! just do a search up top on Privy Digging and you'll have access to the many, many conversations we've all had about it. Normally I'd just tell you to follow your nose < Message edited by Maine Digger -- 5/21/2004 12:20:39 AM > _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to hokeypix) Post #: 2

RE: how can you locate a privy? - 5/21/2004 12:41:42 AM    diginit   Posts: 662 Joined: 4/7/2004 From: California Status: offline Howdy Hokeypics, Give it up.There's never a privy in the woods when you need one! JUST KIDDING. Horistical maps are a good place to start. They are available on this site if you look around. Otherwise Look for abnormal depressions or mounds in the earth and probe. Just make sure it's not a 3x6 burial plot as this is the size of most two seaters. Best of luck From California! (in reply to hokeypix) Post #: 3

RE: how can you locate a privy? - 5/21/2004 12:49:25 AM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline HokeypiXs, sorry about the 'c' before. After utilizing the 'search' tab on the forum home page, you can also do a google search on privy digging, you'll be amazed and entertained by what you find. One of my favorites is the stories and the pictures you can find about actual digs. _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to hokeypix) Post #: 4

RE: how can you locate a privy? - 5/21/2004 11:26:01 AM    flasherr Posts: 538 Joined: 5/7/2004 From: Abilene Texas Status: offline I was wondering has anyone dug anything besides a privy by mistake? I read a thread where someone found a skull in a pit. Also I read where someone was digging a pit in a rough area and the owner requested that the whole be left open. Just makes you think what a great place to hide something or someone. I doubt someone was sitting there 120yrs ago thinking hmmmm wonder if someone will dig this up someday. makes you wonder what they will be digging in 120 yrs if I knew I would fix up a good stash for them lol. Brian (in reply to hokeypix) Post #: 5

RE: how can you locate a privy? - 5/24/2004 10:02:25 PM    Rrey199   Posts: 22 Joined: 5/24/2004 Status: offline Where are you guys from? I'm in NY as well. I'm 5 minutes from Poughkeepsie, near Highland. I'm amazed how many sites there are around this area. When I find one, I mark it on a map. There are at least a dozen I have been wanting to get back to. (in reply to hokeypix) Post #: 6

RE: how can you locate a privy? - 5/24/2004 10:04:58 PM    Rrey199   Posts: 22 Joined: 5/24/2004 Status: offline By the way Flash, I found a human femur the other day. That's a leg bone, in case your not familiar. Very freaky. Turns out there's an old cemetary just across the field I was walking. Guess they didn't bury 'em too deep back then. (in reply to hokeypix) Post #: 7

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