Hi all, rain-type barrels were also buried and used as privy receptacles.
We recovered at least two in Covington Ky in the mid-1980s on Bob
Genheimer's Covington Project.  Please let me know off-line and I can fax
you the relevant pages out of the report.

Jeannine Kreinbrink
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Subject: Rain barrels


> Listers:
>
> During a recent Phase II excavation in Dubuque, we examined a feature that
> was described as a cistern, however, the artifacts recovered from the
> excavation included a large number of barrel hoop fragments as well as a
lot
> of household trash.  An Internet search turned up a reference to an
> excavation in Minnesota where two features with intact barrel hoops were
> uncovered.  The interpretation there was that rain barrels had been
> partially buried to half their height and besides their original function
> had also been used as trash barrels.
>
> My questions:  Has this type of feature been identified at other sites
here
> in the US? or elsewhere?  How common is this practice?  Is there any
ethnic
> correlation?  References always welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Donna Stubbs                             HDR Engineering, Inc.
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