Our Lands Speak: Featuring the Largest Pit Privy North of the Boarding House

Our investigation of the privies at Patterson Village continues. You may recall, in our last blog, we discussed an amazing box privy associated with the closing of the Boarding House after Patterson & Bro. farm equipment manufactory moved to Woodstock in 1886. Not only did this privy contain more than 11,900 artifacts, it also included […]

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 […]