How were late medieval / early modern sewer and drainage systems laid out?

A farm or small hamlet would have a privy or two which sat atop a cess-pit. When filled the pit would be emptied and the residents would typically use the waste for fertilizer. In urban areas most people didn't have the luxury of a privy so most settled for some sort of bucket. Few towns had paved streets or gutter systems and either way gutters systems wrent meant for feces. A town's waste management relied on the surrounding countryside, feces was collected and sent to the countryside to be used by farmers. Urine is simpler, urinating on the ground or in a stream wasnt much of a troublem. Urine was also collected as fermented urine was an important substance, crucial for laundering clothes and for crafts such as leather tanning.

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