Matthew Tomaso schrieb:
> Geoff,
> Yes, I have experienced this phenomenon.
> Interpretation depends, of course, on what kinds of pots you're referring
> to and whether you know enough about the historical context of their
> disposal.
> For example, I've recently recovered a number of chamber pots which were
> probably intact when they were discarded, from a 19th C to turn of the
> century privy.  I believe these to be directly related to the fact that
> this resort community installed indoor plumbing and closed off the privy
> with a variety of objects which were no longer needed along with the usual
> spare bricks, cobbles and borrowed soil, around 1900-1910.  Spring cleaning
> of a sort, but not really seasonal.  The inference is supported by an
> advertisement in an early twentieth C magazine which mentions electricity
> and indoor plumbing in the community.
>
medieval, mostly cooking/storage...
        yours make sense -


geoff carver
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