And the archaeologists don't seem nearly as bothered by night soil as by the prospect that the history in them will be lost.
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Until 1956 there had been a sewerage dump, otherwise referred to as'night soil tip'or'dunny dump', just beyond the north-western end of the estate.
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The first privy diggers, he found, were Washington's poorer residents, " scavengers who cleaned privies and sold night soil to farmers for fertilizer ."
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These dipped vaults do not have an undisturbed night soil layer and the probability of one containing anything of major archaeological importance is extremely low.
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Most of these items would probably have come from the night soil deposited on the midden and then spread with the manure from the farmyard midden.
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The fields were fertilised with large quantities of horse manure and'night soil'from the nearby urban areas and woollen waste from " mungo and shoddy " mills.
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They were transported there with the horse manure, the'night soil'from the occupants of the house being added to the midden at the stable before being used as fertilizer.
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In developing countries the use of whole raw sewage ( night soil ) has been common throughout history, yet the application of pure urine to crops is still rare.
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Historically, this was known as the pail closet; the municipality employed workers, often known as " nightmen " ( from night soil ), to empty and replace the buckets.
