How Old Do You Think This Out House Is?

[Centsless Detecting]

Hey all. Pretty excited about this one. Just got permission to dig our first privy this upcoming weekend. Our map indicates a house near by in 1904 and nothing there on our 1937 Arial picture. Hopefully this thing is as old as I'm thinking. Either way we'll be laying it down and digging it up and detecting the surrounding area. Here's some pics. Good luck on your future hunts.

 

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[Lenrac2]

Be careful! Looks like some poison ivy there! Good luck though! Can't wait to see what you find!

 

[Gare]

I do not think it is that old . By the moon cut on the side and the 2x4's used on the sides also

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Thanks for the replies fellas. I will look n out for poison ivy for sure. Since I'm very new to digging bottles I guess I overlooked the style of construction. My buddy found it last year and just got permission today. Hopefully we can probe around it and maybe find another privy near by. Also close to a river we can walk and search too.

 

[smokeythecat]

1920's to 1950's. A guess. Not 19th century.

 

[pepperj]

Look at the nails, square would be great.
Now who puts a ladder up on the side to look through the moon?

 

[crashbandicoot]

Look at the nails, square would be great.
Now who puts a ladder up on the side to look through the moon?

A moon shooter?

 

[crashbandicoot]

DIG DEEP

That's where the good sh*t is.

You sho got a way with words BTT.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Be careful! Looks like some poison ivy there! Good luck though! Can't wait to see what you find!

Hahaha! We laugh at poison ivy! I,m not allergic to it,poison oak or poison sumac either.But it,s no laughing matter to those who are. Just kidding some! The lumber looks like finished lumber,not rough sawn like an old timer would use.I agree with smokeythecat.

 

[traveller777]

Gare and Smokey are correct. I would put in 1940s range. That does appear to be the remains of a type of asphalt shingle on roof, the lumber is planed. The nails are round head common 8p and 16p, and the person that nailed together was around 6 feet tall and right handed if estimate of foliage and nail pattern is correct. They were fairly good cobblers, but knew nothing on outhouse protocol. The crescent moon should be sideways with crescent pointing to east or as close as possible toward east. If OH situated so not able to do so point it to the left.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Gare and Smokey are correct. I would put in 1940s range. That does appear to be the remains of a type of asphalt shingle on roof, the lumber is planed. The nails are round head common 8p and 16p, and the person that nailed together was around 6 feet tall and right handed if estimate of foliage and nail pattern is correct. They were fairly good cobblers, but knew nothing on outhouse protocol. The crescent moon should be sideways with crescent pointing to east or as close as possible toward east. If OH situated so not able to do so point it to the left.

You know your outhouses,I,ll say that!

 

[traveller777]

You know your outhouses,I,ll say that!

I am from the mountains of East Tennessee. We know outhouses, dogs, and clear drinking beverage.

 

[crashbandicoot]

I am from the mountains of East Tennessee. We know outhouses, dogs, and clear drinking beverage.

Then you know everything you need to know!

 

[crashbandicoot]

I thought that to have that moon upside down like that was bad luck!

 

[crashbandicoot]

There was a family when I was a kid that lived along a bayou I fished in a lot.Rumor was that they were a Waccan family that practiced the Craft as it,s called.You know,one of their sayings is anything you do,good or bad will come back to you threefold. This was near where the bayou turned into a swamp and was not visited much. They kept to them selves but you would see one of them some times from the bayou,real weird looking folks.The thing that strikes me is they used a outhouse and that outhouse had that upside down moon symbol,unlike any moon I,d ever seen on an out house before.It was a real eerie feeling to pass by there and I seldom lingered. My Grandmother knew a little about these folk and said the upside down moon was used to ward off any evil that might be around. The aroma of mystic spirits permeated the air,strange! The symbol on this outhouse moved my memories of the place.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Don't refinish it. It will ruin the value. Good luck.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Don't refinish it. It will ruin the value. Good luck.

That,s pretty damn good!

 

[GoDeep]

Looks like a 2 holer...I mean, i don't know about you, but i can't pinch a loaf sitting next to my best friend, let alone a stranger!!

 

[Mackaydon]

I think the crescent meant it was a man's 'head'; whereas a moon or star was for women. Then again, it has been over 70 years since I've used one of them and may have the order mixed up.
Don.

 

[newnan man]

Might find some old corn cobs, leave em be!