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Experts believe the toilet seat is the only find of its kind

Experts believe the toilet seat is the only find of its kind

1 posted on 08/28/2014 6:07:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Betcha there are older out in the backwood of North America..

That is one HazMat suit required seat..


4 posted on 08/28/2014 6:12:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Let’s face it, if you drop something down a Roman latrine you are unlikely to attempt to fish it out unless you are pretty brave or foolhardy.”

Or you have a slave you can send after it.


5 posted on 08/28/2014 6:23:34 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: SunkenCiv

Keep digging! :{)


6 posted on 08/28/2014 6:23:52 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: SunkenCiv
Hadrian's Wall dig unearths 2,000-year-old toilet seat

I don't care, I am still putting down one of those tissue paper SeatGard things.

7 posted on 08/28/2014 6:36:26 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: SunkenCiv

Just to add to the toilet humor, just finding an ancient wooden toilet seat probably makes an archeologist pause and think “we’re going to find some good $h!t here”.


8 posted on 08/28/2014 6:37:53 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: SunkenCiv
Robin Birley (his dad) is a pretty cool old guy. Also an archaeologist. I believe the dig is on family property.

Just one more amazing find from this area. I loved the letters the Birleys found to/from people deployed to the wall.

/johnny

11 posted on 08/28/2014 6:41:49 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SunkenCiv

Reminds me of te most common graffitti found in archaeological digs around Roman toilets. The phrase “Stercus sachidet”. Literally, “shit happens”.

As it is said in the bible, “There is nothing new under the sun”.

CC


12 posted on 08/28/2014 6:51:43 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: SunkenCiv

Was it up or down?


13 posted on 08/28/2014 6:52:00 PM PDT by almcbean
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To: SunkenCiv

I won’t believe it until they find the plastic chain thingy that gets hung up when you flush so that you have to come back five minutes later and jiggle the handle.


22 posted on 08/28/2014 8:41:05 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv

So, what exactly are they digging in? I mean, it’s a toilet, right? You gotta really love your job to do that. (Somewhere in there is a pony.)


24 posted on 08/28/2014 10:38:51 PM PDT by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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To: SunkenCiv; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

Some things are best left buried...


25 posted on 08/28/2014 10:43:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Are you ready to plop your butt down on this “perfectly preserved” seat, BBC fool?


27 posted on 08/28/2014 11:07:47 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t see a flush handle...so mine is better.


28 posted on 08/29/2014 3:53:16 AM PDT by BobL
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To: SunkenCiv

Must have been all guys using it, because there doesn’t appear to be a lid to leave up or put down ;-)


32 posted on 08/29/2014 11:00:19 AM PDT by Cloverfarm
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To: SunkenCiv
First time I remember seeing the word "faboulous" used with "latrine."

Now, here is one fabulous latrine:


33 posted on 08/29/2014 3:59:51 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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