Info Of Helle's Toilet: 12Th-Century Three-Person Loo Spot Goes On Display

Conservator Luisa Duarte working on the 12th-century john seat. 

Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Archaeologists know the names of the owners of the edifice where plank of oak sat
A rare 12th-century john spot built to arrange 3 users at 1 time is to teach on display for the showtime fourth dimension at the Museum of London Docklands.

Nine hundred years afterwards the to a greater extent than or less carved plank of oak was showtime placed over a cesspit close a tributary of the Thames, it volition shape the centrepiece of an exhibition almost the capital’s “secret” rivers.

The strikingly good preserved seat, all the same showing the axe marks where its 3 crude oil holes were cut, 1 time sat behind a mixed commercial as well as residential tenement edifice on what is right away Ludgate Hill, close St Paul’s Cathedral, on nation that inward the mid-1100s would accept been a pocket-sized isle inward the river Fleet.

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