Thread: Holy Crapper!!!

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Originally Posted by rspears

A bit off subject but I understand that amateur archeologists use a "T" handle with a slender (1/4" or 3/8") rod about six or seven feet long, and they hunt for old abandoned outhouse locations, especially out back of old saloons or hotels in ghost towns or old homestead sites. Seems back in the day they would dig a deep hole, set the outhouse, and over the years as it filled with loamy soil of decomposed waste they would simply dig a new hole nearby, move the outhouse over and use the dug dirt to cap the old hole. Supposed to be one of the most lucrative spots to dig, as anything dropped was almost always left as lost. Old whiskey bottles, coins, watches, jewelry, pistols and on and on. The modern hunter walks around pushing the rod into the ground, and when he finds a spot where it sinks easily after breaking through a cap layer it is generally an old outhouse hole, and the dig begins. Often they find a line of several old holes, and they can track the date of use by the items found.

yep we knew a guy that did this he would find old ink wells and sell them for big $$ something about the age and the color of the glaze made them worth alot of coin.there must of been alot of writing going on sitting on the old thunder mug