BREAKING - They may have found Paul Revere's outhouse

[underpants]

BOSTON (CBS) — Workers digging at the Paul Revere house in the city’s North End believe they may have found an archaeological jackpot that could give them a unique window into history–the Revere family outhouse.

The possible privy site was discovered Monday, and diggers were attempting to open it up Tuesday to investigate.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/09/26/paul-revere-outhouse-north-end-house-dig-joe-bagley/

You’d fill it up with you-know-what, and then also your household waste, because everyone threw their trash out into that,” Bagley said. “We’re hoping to find the individuals’ waste themselves, which, we can get seeds from what they were eating, we can find parasites, find out what their health was, but then everything else that they threw out from their house.”

He said the team found a four-by-six-foot brick rectangle–too small to be the foundation for a house or a shed.

[malaise]

1. Oh

Shit!

[suffragette]

5. DUzy!

[malaise]

6. Ha

I still miss the DUzys

[suffragette]

8. Me, too.

[Takket]

16. K&R!!!!!!!!!

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2. #1 if by sea; #2 if by land....

[underpants]

3. Oh very well done

[panader0]

4. lol

[jberryhill]

15. .

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight dump of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.


He said to his friend, “If I drink and eat
Beer and nachos at the tavern to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft on the privy door
Behind my house, as a signal-light,–

One if by beer, and two if by chips;
And I on the big round hole will sit,
Ready to grunt and spread the smell,
To every Middlesex hill and dell,
And wake the country-folk up to yell.

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19. longfellow's serenade?

[tecelote]

7. Paul Revere had a brick shithouse?

What a bunch of crap!

[davsand]

9. My late sister in law, an archaeologist, LOVED finding old outhouses!

She said that same thing--people throw stuff down the loo that they don't want found. She said she'd found some pretty amazing artifacts when excavating a privy. She worked for a company that did emergency excavation work for municipalities building public structures and highways. If there was any possibility of the proposed site being of historical significance, they were sent in to reclaim everything they could save before construction damaged it. She had some marvelous stories.

I miss her terribly.


Laura

[LuckyCharms]

10. I'll be more impressed when they find his stool. n/t

[hack89]

23. I saw what you did there. nt

[Kaleva]

11. A three holer.

6 feet is plenty big enough for three people to sit right next to each other and poop.

[madokie]

12. As a kid

we had a two holer. One hole was bigger and I take it was for the grown ups, the other much smaller, I take it was for us kids

I shit you not

[Kaleva]

14. At our church, we had a three holer outhouse behind the church.

In summer that building stunk to the heavens and attracted wasps.

[milestogo]

20. Was the theology trinitarian?

[shraby]

13. Mr. Shraby's ancestors lived a block from Paul Revere's house, only they lived there

50 years earlier.

[Takket]

17. also found at the site..........

[Blue_true]

18. Knock yourselves out Archeologists. Just don't ask me for hands on help. nt

[customerserviceguy]

21. That was my first thought

However, I did read an article many years ago that says that human waste is not toxic after many decades, and actually breaks down into something that resembles garden soil. The article explained that old bottle collectors love to find outhouse sites, since the bottles were much less likely to be broken, having landed on a soft surface, and being shielded from breakage by more of the same.

It seems that a lot of closet drinkers used to toss their containers down there, since they figured no one would look for them, at least not in their time.

[Achilleaze]

22. Poo studies will show P. Revere eschewed GMOs

Smart patriot