Medieval toilets STILL smell foul even after 800 years, archaeologists reveal
Peter Stevens
Medieval toilets still smell foul after 800 years, archaeologists have revealed. Archaeologists from the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) excavated a loo in the northern German city of Paderborn. The researchers found five sealed and airtight medieval latrines - which preserved a number of artefacts which would have otherwise decomposed - but also, smelled. Susanne Bretzel, a conservator at LWL, said: "Even after so many centuries in the ground, the latrine find still had a rather