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[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

wooden second floor above a latrine cesspit

most hygienic 12th century noble house

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

cathedral, which means people were praying on the ground floor while over a lake of shit

presumably they sealed off the smell or else what a stanky church kombucha-disgust

[–] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

New Miyazaki swamp level discovered

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

The Doo Doo Depths

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was a stankier time in general

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Castle toilets were sometimes just holes in the floor that emptied out the side of the walls to the ground below.

(If that "Incredible Cross Sections" book I had as a kid was a viable source. Those books went into almost comical detail on how sewage is stored and disposed of in various buildings, ships, planes etc.)

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Even today with quite advanced plumbing, "where the hell do we put all the shit" is one of the more important parts of urban planning.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

they don't seem to have been inside the basilica, some other room or possibly a different building in the cathedral complex. it's all been rebuilt like twice now though so i don't think we know for sure