Another Old Find - A Cesspool?

So as they were excavating for the new entrance to the basement they hit a brick wall - literaly.



However the bricks were in more of a dome shape than a wall. What they hit was the old cesspol, which is large 8 foot in diameter brick dome sitting on an stone foundation. A cesspool is an early design of our modern septic tank. Ours is brick and stone which was a typical construction in the 1880-1900. This is a rough design but ours is more of a dome. We found the access manhole when we took up the driveway but it was not actually on top of the cesspool.





Here is a photo I took of the inside of the cesspool (I stuck my hand in - that is as far as I wanted to go). You can see it is quite a nice pice of masonry. Notice the old bottles and cans in the pit. These would have been put in through the manhole, not via the house out flow.






Quite interesting - this was just below our driveway - who knew.

Lost Camera Cable

Well the second floor is coming right along. If I could find the cable for the camera I could upload some photos. However since we are not living in our house - for obvious reasons - things are easily misplaced. At home everything has a place, when you are housesitting for someone you have to weave your stuff with theirs and things are easly lost for a few days.

Please visit back in a day or two because I have some neat photos from an interesting find when we were excavating around the foundation.