Unearthing the Privy

A couple friends are in the business of visiting old properties around the country and digging up the outhouse areas in search of valuables. This past weekend they stopped by to check out this house's yard. After locating the area they thought would have been the outhouse, they got to digging.

They dug down roughly 10'-12'. Apparently homesteads either dug one privy and had it emptied at regular intervals or dug several and covered them over when they were full. They concluded that this one had been cleaned out a number of times, but they did find a few buried treasures. Lots of broken china, whiskey bottles, other jars.