Mystery Artifact Unearthed at City Hall Is 19th-Century Feminine Device

[ashling]

CITY HALL — An excavation at the city’s political center has unearthed a 3-inch artifact that initially baffled archaeologists — until they realized it was one of the earliest documented feminine hygiene products in New York.

“At first we thought it was maybe a spice-grinder or needle case,” said Alyssa Loorya, president of Chrysalis Archaeology, the firm that oversaw the dig, part of a Department of Design and Construction rehabilitation project at City Hall. “We were stumped.”

The early incarnation of a douche — a hollow, cylinder with small holes at its top made from unidentified mammal bone — was found in a massive heap of buried garbage that dates back to between 1803 and 1815, Loorya said.

The centuries-old trash, in a pile found three feet underground and extending to a depth of about six feet was also filled with liquor bottles and various items associated with food waste, suggesting it may have all came from one celebratory event, Loorya said.

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140219/civic-center/19th-century-douche-unearthed-at-city-hall

[geardaddy]

1. *snerk*

they said "mammal bone"

[Xyzse]

2. -coughs-

I am so juvenile...

[leftyohiolib]

3. why would that be part of a celebraory eent

[Lochloosa]

4. My wife thinks it's a celebratory event when I take out the garbarge

[GermanDem]

5. LOL!!!

[Aristus]

9. Guten Morgen! Willkommen ins DU!

[ashling]

11. Which opens the chance for my theory on the origin of curling

some disgruntled wife invented it ti teach men how to use a broom

[LeftofObama]

6. What celebratory event

would involve a douche? Just asking.

[Autumn]

7. Pick a republican event, any republican event.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Right on. The RNC was a perfect example

of a douche at a celebratory event. Many, actually.

[geardaddy]

10. DUzy.