Photograph of 936 St. Peter Street at the time of excavation.

ID: 6420 ~ Source: Courtesy of University of New Orleans ~ Date: 2014

This file appears in: A Privy Full of Goat Skulls: The Archaeology of 936 St. Peter Street

Photograph of 936 St. Peter Street at the time of excavation.

Two buildings occupy the property: a one-and-a-half story creole cottage on the street-front and a three-story outbuilding on the rear of the lot. Excavations at the site were concentrated within the footprint of three-story outbuilding. All of the privy fill was excavated, and almost 100% of the inundated soils were water screened through fine mesh, producing an unusually complete record of the contents.

This file appears in: A Privy Full of Goat Skulls: The Archaeology of 936 St. Peter Street

A Privy Full of Goat Skulls: The Archaeology of 936 St. Peter Street

By By Helen Bouzon, J. Ryan Kennedy, and D. Ryan Gray, edited by Elizabeth Williams

In 2014, the University of New Orleans was invited to conduct archaeological testing at 936 St. Peter Street while the property was undergoing renovations. Below the surface layer, archaeologists discovered the opening of a privy shaft. The privy…