To you who have MDed around outhouses.....

[Old Katz]

I worked a site last Thursday that had a strange looking outhouse.
It Had a concrete bowl with walls about 3inches think. I'm guessing
the site I detected is alot later than I thought, perhaps in the 1940's.
Also, when did people start useing corrugated roofs?

Thanks

Katz

 

[okdirtfisher]

Well Old Katz,You got my attention and I myself was curious concerning use of sheet metal roofs.I didn't find any dates specifically,other than corrugated roofing has been in use for centuries and in the 1840s began to hold up a little better because of the advance in the use of galvanizing.
look forward to updates on your future hunts at that site it looks to be older than dirt..lol!

 

[ohio fred]

Maybe built during the scare of nuclear war.May be thought they might be in the out house when some one dropped the big one.

 

[gilfordberry]

Don't know the answer to that one. But I can tell you that my earliest memories of my Grandparents house where of listening to rain hit the tin roof. That would have been somewhere around 1945. That site looks promising. Also looks like it's gonna need some serious bush-hogging before you're able to swing that detector with much success.....Good luck!

 

[ronaldj2]

Didn't they use the outhouse to drop the big one?