Our Lands Speak: Fascinating Once-in-a-Lifetime Box Privy Finds

Thanks for joining me again. In my last blog we discussed the box privies associated with the houses at Patterson Village, and today we examine the single box privy found northeast of the boarding house. This specific box privy was similar in size to the other box privies explored at Patterson Village. It measured 1.8 […]

Our Lands Speak: Box Privies at Patterson Village

Welcome back. In my last blog, I talked about pit privies as one of the two kinds of privies we found at Patterson Village. As you know, we find privies extremely valuable, especially given the insights they expose into how people lived during that time period. The second kind of privy we examined was a […]

Our Lands Speak: Featuring Pit Privies at Patterson Village

We’ve seen many amazing buildings and artifacts along our archeological journey, however, one of the most interesting types of features we encountered on our excavation of 19th century Euro-Canadian sites are privy pits. They may not sound exciting to you yet, being that these were the holes that were dug under outhouses. On most of […]