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About ceramics from garbage: some 20 years ago we did a CRS study where
we found that the wet garbage from the City of St. Louis was purchased by
a hog farmer, barged down to his river side farm, and spread out to feed
his animals. The result of which we found a wide spread distribution of
teacup fragments, teaa saucers, etc (not much of any larger ware) in his
fields. We found 1890s newspaper ads advertising the sale of this
material.
I assume what you were looking for was more like the 'sebakim' of the
Middle East, were such materials were used as fertilizer, or as today,
where the effluent from sewage plants is sprayed on fields as fertilizer
In this case, the garbage was not to imporve field fertility, but to slop
the hogs.
dave browman
P.S. you asked for the reference; I nearly forgot:
Browman et al
1981 CRS of Three Alternative Access Routes, Chesley Island, Jefferson
County. On file, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Historic
Preservation Program library.
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