Great - thanks - will do!
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From: "Davis, Daniel (KYTC)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:30:51 
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Subject: Re: pool table slate-lined privy

The pieces looked about like the ones shown on this web page:
http://www.billiardsforum.info/billiard-room/home/joining-3-pool-table-s
late-pieces.asp 
If you search for "slate pool table" and check the images, you'll see
exactly what Tanya found. Traditionally, pool tables were all made with
large, flat slabs of slate, which also made them very heavy. The slate
was fastened to the table, and covered with felt. After the felt was
laid over the slate, the pockets and railings were attached. 

Daniel B. Davis
Archaeologist Coordinator
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Division of Environmental Analysis
200 Mero Street
Frankfort, KY 40622
(502) 564-7250
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Robert L. Schuyler
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:10 AM
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Subject: Re: pool table slate-lined privy

Not being corrupt and playing such evil games as pool, why is there 
slate on pool tables? Why not just fabric covered wood? Could you 
send the list some pictures. Sounds fascinating.

Bob Schuyler

At 07:45 AM 2/3/2011, you wrote:
>Last month I completed phase III work in a historically
African-American
>neighborhood near downtown Lexington, Kentucky. On one of the parcels
we
>excavated, I came across a square, early to mid-twentieth-century privy
that
>had been lined with pool table slate (about 9 large sections, bolt
holes and
>all.possibly 3 pool tables worth). It appears that the pieces had been
>"jammed" in there (for lack of a better phrase) as a form of lining
after
>the fact, rather than the privy having been lined with it upon initial
>construction. The former occupants were obviously resourceful, and it's
an
>interesting find. I haven't come across this before. Has anybody else
ever
>seen a privy (or other feature) lined with pool table slate? Contact me
>off-post if you would like to see a photograph of what the lining
looked
>like once the interior deposits were removed.
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>Cheers,
>
>Tanya
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>Tanya A. Faberson, PhD, RPA
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