LEWISBURG — Master ceramicist Robert Lee will be performing another privy dig at the Union County Historical Society Gallery, 15 N. Water St., Lewisburg, today through Sunday. The public is invited to ...

To be a privy digger in Philadelphia is to be part excavator, part flea market authority, and part pirate. First, you must be able to dig — sometimes 30-plus feet in rocky soil — to get to the bottom ...

Apr. 27—LEWISBURG — You never know what's sitting just below the surface, waiting to be rediscovered. The Union County Historical Society is about to find out what's underneath the brick and dirt in ...

LEWISBURG — The Union County Historical Society will host a privy dig at the gallery at 15 N. Water St. in Lewisburg in September. Robert Lee, a veteran of more than 400 archaeological “privy digs,” ...

Apr. 23—LEWISBURG — The Union County Historical Society will hold its final privy dig event Saturday and Sunday. Master ceramicist Robert E. Lee III will conduct the dig at the society's headquarters ...

Spring Hill Historic Home in Massillon is hosting a free, public archaeological dig from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Event sponsors are hoping to find old bottles, pieces of broken cups and pottery, ...

To begin a dig, he uses a probing rod similar to the type that utility companies use. He says the soil changes in a privy site -- it's softer, and sometimes the probing rod will touch an artifact ...