Gong Farmer (Worst Jobs in History)
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A job as disgusting as it was dangerous, until the development of modern plumbing the gong farmer filled an important role within Medieval / Tudor communities.
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Christian H. Miles
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'Lord of the Land' , 'Lift Motif ' by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Sources:
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, Volume 1
By Carl A. Zimring
Archaeologies of waste: encounters with the unwanted
By Daniel Sosna, Lenka Brunclíková
Encyclopedia of the Medieval World by Edward D. English
Bad 19th Century Jobs - The Nightman. (n.d.). Retrieved from Soverign Hill Education Blog: https://sovereignhilledblog.co....m/2017/11/07/bad-19t
Gong farmer. (n.d.). Retrieved from World Wide Words: http://www.worldwidewords.org/....weirdwords/ww-gon3.h
What work did a Nightman carry out? (n.d.). Retrieved from History House: http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/....articles/nightman.ht
