What did toilets look like in castles?
What did toilets look like in castles? Yes, there were toilets. In photographs of castles, you can often see a tower at the corner that sticks out like a bay window. That's a toilet. It had a seat with a hole in it, and everything dropped in the moat.
What did medieval people use for a toilet?
For those familiar with an outhouse, the medieval toilet is its massive stone-built predecessor. Relegated to the private alcoves of a fort, medieval toilets were nothing but openings that led into a latrine or castle moat below.
Were moats filled with sewage?
It turns out that those fairy tales you read as a child all left out a very important truth: The moats that surrounded medieval castles weren't just useful defenses against attack; they were also open sewers into which the castles' primitive waste disposal systems flushed human excrement and other foul substances.