PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryArt@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 months agoTwo types of Medieval castle latrinesmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down11
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minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·5 months agoAs gross as it would be to be able to see someone’s poop drop down the side of the wall, the one on the left must have smelled atrocious.
minus-squarePugJesus@piefed.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·5 months agoThere was at least one incident where a strike force managed to climb up a castle’s poop chute, so the right side has some additional disadvantages…
minus-squareDarkassassin07@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 months agoImagine trying to take a dump and getting an arrow right in the taint…
minus-squaredolphin @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoHow thick is the arrow? Asking for a friend
minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoIf the arrow doesn’t kill them and they sound the alarm, you’d be in deep shit.
minus-squarehansolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI’ve always wondered this. if you’re surrounded and your shitter is the version that opens to the outside, your hanging ass is entirely visible to anyone. If you’re locked in the keep, do you just plan to hold it for an entire standoff?
minus-squarePugJesus@piefed.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoYou’d probably be emptying your chamber pot during moments of calm rather than shitting directly on the shitter at that point.
minus-squareDarkassassin07@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoI mean… I’d collect it and fire it at the enemy… Certainly not hanging my bare ass over the wall during a siege.
minus-squareDisOne@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up15·5 months agoThe one on the right often smelt pretty bad too because everyone’s poo and urine ended up in the moat, making that eventually turn into a cesspit too
minus-squarehansolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoYeah, saw that once in a castle in France and wondered what in the hell people were thinking wanting to live in the middle of a shit pond?
minus-squarepiccolo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoSomeone who hoarded lots of wealth and made enemies. The poop moat was a first line of defense, because you gotta be real pissed to try and cross it.
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoAccording to a commenter from when this was posted previously, both designs waste areas were cleaned out frequently https://fedia.io/m/historyillustrations@lemmy.world/t/1018190/Two-types-of-Medieval-castle-latrines#comments
As gross as it would be to be able to see someone’s poop drop down the side of the wall, the one on the left must have smelled atrocious.
There was at least one incident where a strike force managed to climb up a castle’s poop chute, so the right side has some additional disadvantages…
Imagine trying to take a dump and getting an arrow right in the taint…
How thick is the arrow? Asking for a friend
If the arrow doesn’t kill them and they sound the alarm, you’d be in deep shit.
I’ve always wondered this. if you’re surrounded and your shitter is the version that opens to the outside, your hanging ass is entirely visible to anyone. If you’re locked in the keep, do you just plan to hold it for an entire standoff?
You’d probably be emptying your chamber pot during moments of calm rather than shitting directly on the shitter at that point.
I mean… I’d collect it and fire it at the enemy… Certainly not hanging my bare ass over the wall during a siege.
The one on the right often smelt pretty bad too because everyone’s poo and urine ended up in the moat, making that eventually turn into a cesspit too
Yeah, saw that once in a castle in France and wondered what in the hell people were thinking wanting to live in the middle of a shit pond?
Someone who hoarded lots of wealth and made enemies. The poop moat was a first line of defense, because you gotta be real pissed to try and cross it.
According to a commenter from when this was posted previously, both designs waste areas were cleaned out frequently
https://fedia.io/m/historyillustrations@lemmy.world/t/1018190/Two-types-of-Medieval-castle-latrines#comments