The cesspit under the Somerset House is nearly 15 feet deep and contained almost 100 artifacts. Courtesy of MOLA Excavations at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London have revealed a nearly ...

Archaeologists undertaking preliminary excavations beneath the Courtauld Gallery at the Somerset House in London have discovered a centuries-old cesspit filled with a trove of medieval artifacts—and ...

The Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC) reports that thrush bones discarded in a Roman cesspit at Pollentia reveal the songbirds were routine street food rather than an elite ...

Analysis of a latrine in Jerusalem that dates back over 500 years finds human parasites common in northern Europe yet very rare in Middle East at the time, suggesting long-distance trade or pilgrimage ...

A clay pot excavated from the cesspit below Rembrandt van Rijn’s Amsterdam house has been declared as one of only two “true Rembrandt relics” by Leonore van Sloten, the curator of the Rembrandt House ...

Guernsey Water is encouraging all cesspit customers to sign up to the portal Hundreds of people have signed up to a new website which removes the need for customers to call for information on cesspit ...

Paul and Debbie Rouget have a cesspit and said they were disappointed they would not see any changes There are no plans for Guernsey cesspit users to be connected to the main drainage system before ...

Archaeologists believe they are on the cusp of shedding new light on the life of William Shakespeare – by digging up what may have been the playwright’s cesspit. The dig focuses on three areas of the ...

Hundreds of people have signed up to a new website which removes the need for customers to call for information on cesspit collections, Guernsey Water has said. MyCesspit Portal, external was launched ...