Out house finds!!!

[Jaytaybro]

Does anyone on here search for old out house plots? Im sure so much fell in those holes that were never known or looked for. How do you find the outhouse, someplace or holes? Fill me in bc ima get a detector springtime and begin. Murray, Kentucky resudent

 

[Blackfoot58]

Welcome! Yes many of us have searched abandoned outhouse pits. Bottles, coins, broken ceramics…
You never know

 

[AU Seeker]

Just an FYI, most outhouse holes are to deep for using a metal detector.

 

[newnan man]

Yuck!

 

[vpnavy]

Does anyone on here search for old out house plots? Im sure so much fell in those holes that were never known or looked for. How do you find the outhouse, someplace or holes? Fill me in bc ima get a detector springtime and begin. Murray, Kentucky resudent

Welcome Aboard! Take a look at FORUM: KENTUCKY for information (i.e., clubs, etc.) directly related to your state.

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and found Should I dig up the old outhouse? (Mar 2, 2005)

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[teleprospector]

Welcome !
Jon from s/e Michigan

 

[westKYdigger]

Welcome. Weird coincident, just this morning, I came across a message from you dated 2022 in another forum I never answered. Sorry, I'm mostly just a looker on forums, not a poster. I have been collecting bottles for years & have dug a lot of outhouses & dumps. I stopped digging in Murray city limits a few years ago after I came across some historical news articles that talked about a city ordinance that required outhouses to be 'dipped' (cleaned) at least once a year. I am still looking for where they would have taken the spoils. There are a lot of posts about digging on this forum. A metal detector may help find a dump out in the country, but as mentioned in a previous post, artifacts in outhouses are beyond most detector's range. I'll be glad to help you get started if you have somewhere in mind. FYI, if an outhouse as been around long enough to have collectible artifacts, anything nasty has long since decomposed. 30 years ago, I would say I'm only interested in bottles around the turn of the century. Now I have to specify which century.
Good luck

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Yuck!

Which is why the coins are still there. Folks who dropped them were not keen of digging around in the fresh.

 

[tamrock]

I like seeing what privy diggers find. Ive read stories told by those who really engage in the practice have found change that's more than likely fell out of pockets by one dropping their drawers to old china plates that maybe got dropped scraping off the leftovers of it. One story I read was a privy digger found a carved pure ivory 19th century dildo. That one makes you wonder what all went on in the outhouse back in the old days 🤔

 

[mrwiskers]

@tamrock ...makes ya wonder lol...

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

I have been digging outhouse pits for over 40+ years. Have found bottles ,jugs,coins ,tokens,guns,brass knuckles,dolls,marbles,etc,etc. You will need a probe, go to your local junkyard,look for the spring steel rods on the trunk lid of larger cars, caddilacs,buicks etc,then have a handle put on it and start probing. Look for sunken spots with taller grass than the surrounding area,privy pits will commonly settle and sink some. Take a screen to sift the dirt for coins,tokens,etc. I included a pic of a typical colorado outhouse pit and a drawing of a pit and probe. Hope this helps and good luck !!!

 

[newnan man]

Seems like all you outhouse diggers are finding some good shit!

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Seems like all you outhouse diggers are finding some good shit!

Newman, at least we all know we won't get any competition from you 🙂

 

[perdidogringo]

This is something I'd like to try up here in the Chicago suburbs. Plenty of old house sites that I have searched with my metal detector but never tried to dig out a privy. I wish I could observes someone up here who is good at it to watch and learn.

 

[pepperj]

What was dumped down the hole is a future treasure. After a few decades there's no crap left, as they put wood shaving, lime, lye, ash to kill the odours.
Grew up using them and if you wanted to get rid of anything, the outhouse was the place to go.
Broke something-down the hole it went, then when asked if anybody seen it.....

 

[ToddsPoint]

I detect long gone farm houses that are now ag fields. I thought about trying to find an outhouse to dig. I’m sure every one of these houses had an outhouse. I bought a probe and tried to find some. After the land has been farmed for many years after the house is gone, it’s not possible to find the outhouse with a probe. At least in my area.