On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:14:59 -0500 Carl Steen wrote:
 
> To add my two cents worth of random observations and questions:
>
> First, I can't think of a single example of a rural privy on 17th-mid-19th
> century sites in SC. I think that the nearby woods were used.
 
I can't speak for the Carolinas, but there are at least two, standing, original,
early-19th century Thomas Jefferson-designed and indisputably rural
privies at Poplar Forest in central Virginia.
 
If I remember correctly, however, neither "necessary" has a privy pit, which -
one would think - rather obviates the possibility of finding a chamber pot
therein (Barbara might want to correct me here).
 
Alasdair Brooks
University of York