How did people dump a load during medieval times? Did they go in a bucket and toss it out a window or dig a latrine outside or what?

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Both. There were indoor toilets in major structures, though they weren't flush toilets and had to be emptied. In the country people would just step outside, but in very cold weather probably used a bucket indoors. People in towns and cities used a fancier bucket or even a commode. Waste would be dumped in the street or in a cesspool shared by several homes....Show more

In town, they just dumped the pot out the window, but I speculate the farmers had enough space to be more sanitary about it....Show more

Mostly they did it in a bucket or pot and it was sometimes thrown from the upstairs window, most pavements were open sewers in towns at that time....Show more

That is what cobblestone streets were all about then, where there was human poop mixed in with all the horse droppings on many streets.
But yeah, they had chamber pots, which were used for that, and they did have out houses too for areas that did not have all the stone works around....Show more

Yes and yes....Show more