Friday's privy from hell

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

I've been absent from the forum for a while, but I figured I'd post this recent dig for fun. On the 28th, I finally dug a privy again, after about a year. Probed out this 1868 house a couple weeks ago, and got to dig it on Friday.

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

It was 30 something degrees, so we got to work quickly to warm up.

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

Things looked good early on, as we found 1880's shards a foot down.

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

But things soon took a rocky turn...

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

The pit was filled almost entirely with rocks. A little mud in between to stick the rocks together, but basically all rocks.

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

Here's Tom down a little further.

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

Here's me 7-8 feet down, at the bottom... Guess what, we had a foot of water to deal with. Anything that could go wrong with this privy, did.

JOETHECROW · Dec 30, 2012

Nice pics Connor....Weve dug a couple looked just like that...[

] One or two bottles stuck down in the lower edges/corners... I'm dyin' to know, was there anything in the bottom layer besides water?

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

A badly cartooned image showing that the privy is in line with where the house's porch used to be.

Wheelah23 · Dec 30, 2012

But we did find some stuff to make the dig bearable.

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