Posted on 09/26/2017 2:11:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
This is simply digging up what has been similarly been dug up before.
It's all about money.
His neighbors used to hear him shouting “The British are coming! The British are coming!” from within the privy after big feasts.
This is simply digging up what has been similarly been dug up before.
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But if it was Thomas Jefferson’s Privy, and they found condoms, they could check the DNA, or if they did not find condoms, maybe Thomas is the father.
See. This archeology is very beneficial. We need more of it.
LOL! Probably $25,000 for every pottery shard or piece of broken glass.
I have to disagree. IMHO, this is the kind of stuff universities should be researching. As an amateur genealogist, I have to be, by extension, a historian. It’s really upsetting how much of our history has been lost because people just didn’t care to preserve it, on top of all the wars where courthouses, etc., were burned to the ground. Did you know that just within the past 5 years, someone looked more closely at a map of coastal North Carolina from the mid-1500s and realized there was a patch on it...upon lifting the patch, they discovered a symbol of a fort? It had been a secret “right under their noses” for over 400 years. This has led them inland to the Chowan River, where they have discovered broken English pottery dating to the Elizabethan period. In other words, they may have found the Lost Colony.
Who knew that on the 2nd most important midnight ride of Paul Revere he got splinters?
it’s the little details - like outhouse building codes - that make history all that more interesting
Elizabethan period. In other words, they may have found the Lost Colony
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But...but...if they find the Lost Colony what will become of the Lost Colony Attraction in the Outer Banks? The great mystery will be over! ;)
Another thing to keep in mind is that these archaeological digs on historic sites may be governed by established laws.
Oh wait, it was probably more like the "Village of White Slavery," since the Coastal tribes were notorious slavers even long before the English came ashore.
Talk about blowing up a liberal narrative!
Here’s an article about some new discoveries in the last few years about the Roanoke Colony. I think they may be onto something with this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/science/the-roanoke-colonists-lost-and-found.html?mcubz=0
What a crappy job.
Coal ashes would have been used to kill the smell. In more “modern” times we used lime.
Coal was hardly (if) ever used for smoking food. Almost any wood would have produced better-flavored smoked food...
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere..... |
Have you ever wondered what they used before the Sears catalog? ;^) Thanks Red Badger.
Remains of 8th Century Flush Toilet Found in Gyeongju
http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_Cu_detail.htm?No=130466
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