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With a human skull in the garden?

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Slippersandacuppa · 07/05/2016 20:45

Because I've never been in this situation before.

We've been tidying up the garden and have piles of rubble all over the place. One of our rickety old fences borders a graveyard (very old belonging to ancient church) and I'm assuming the skull sort of drifted under our fence and has been near the top of the soil for a while. I hope.

I've googled but can't seem to find much info. I'll be contacting the parish council on Monday but wondered if it warrants a call to 101 (or whatever it is) to register it just in case it's not a graveyard wanderer Confused

Anyone had a similar experience?!

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lotsoffunandgames · 08/05/2016 21:16

Placemarking! :)

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Slippersandacuppa · 08/05/2016 21:09

What a life. A hole in the head that may have killed you. Buried just outside the churchyard or drifted under a fence then arrested 500 years after your death. Possibly missing your short leg.

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Slippersandacuppa · 08/05/2016 21:08

A friend suggested Lord Lucan

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MyNewBearTotoro · 08/05/2016 21:05

Google tells me the average adult male femur is 48cm long. Looks like this one is only 18cm so even accounting for the missing ends and people being shorter in the olden days I'm guessing it doesn't belong to Yorrick?

SharonSignsToCherryRed · 08/05/2016 21:05

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HelsinkiLights · 08/05/2016 21:05

Wanders on to thread wondering if YS could be a sidekick of Richard III.
Now wanders back into the kitchen to refill wine glass.

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Slippersandacuppa · 08/05/2016 20:52

Seriously.

The dog wants to eat the end bit. Was that the interesting bit?

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With a human skull in the garden?
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Slippersandacuppa · 08/05/2016 20:51

Wakeup My eyes Shock

It would have had to be a badass worm to do that.

Leg pictures. We have big grass here in the Shire. And feet

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Ouriana · 08/05/2016 20:50

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WakeUpFast · 08/05/2016 20:50

webecoist.momtastic.com/2010/07/12/mad-medicine-14-crazy-cures-from-ages-past/

There's some weird pictures of how piles were treated with hot rods (for those interested!) Confused

WakeUpFast · 08/05/2016 20:49

Copied from a website i can't link because the page keeps refreshing as I go back and forth!

Got a migraine? Maybe it would feel better if a doctor drilled a hole into your skull – without anesthesia. But probably not. The process of intentionally punching a hole in the skull – known as trepanation – was once considered the best option for epileptic seizures, mental disorders and head injuries, and involved some of the most amazingly terrifying medical instruments you’ve ever seen. It has been around at least since neolithic times, and some people actually believe that it has a place in modern medicine.

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With a human skull in the garden?
StickTheDMWhereTheSunDontShine · 08/05/2016 20:47

And now I'm reading up about trepanation. The hole looks rather small for that.

But - bloody hell!
www.trepan.com/

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Thelastusername · 08/05/2016 20:39

SocialDisaster Grin

SocialDisaster · 08/05/2016 20:38

Oh, it would have been a nail.

SocialDisaster · 08/05/2016 20:37

A strong hat pin?

Thelastusername · 08/05/2016 20:35

That hole is just too small and neat to be a bullet hole or anything that's impacted or hit the skull with force, imo.

Maybe it's a drill hole, like from surgery to relief pressure on the brain? Or a worm has eaten it's way through the skull?

SocialDisaster · 08/05/2016 20:35

It looks like a narrow blade entered the head, poor Yorick.

Palomb · 08/05/2016 20:32

Let's see the front then!

WakeUpFast · 08/05/2016 20:30

Omg that's amazing. But what would make a hole like that? And how would the blood stain the bone just around the hole? When were guns invented? Wouldn't a bullet hole cause the skull the shatter? Were there any olden day screwdriver through the head type capital punishment?!

So many questions! Brilliant thread!

Thelastusername · 08/05/2016 20:30

By my estimation, that skull looks really old!

There, no need for the expert analysis now.

Will you get you garden dug up and turned over for free now OP? It's one way of avoiding having to do the gardening and weeding yourself Grin

HookedOnHooking · 08/05/2016 20:29

PC upanddown was probably looking for bloodstains.

HookedOnHooking · 08/05/2016 20:28

Poor Yorik. Was trepanning a thing in Shakespeare land at any point?

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Slippersandacuppa · 08/05/2016 20:22

*identified. I've had more wine to cope with all the stress.

Also, the attached photo. And I'd like to clarify that I didn't egotistically think PC Up-and-down was eyeing me up. DH spotted it.

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Slippersandacuppa · 08/05/2016 20:19

You guys seriously rock! I'm not sure my RL friends would be so interested in my accidental collection of dead stuff.

I will go out and measure them both. I've attached the cropped pic of YS's head so he won't be intentified. Can anyone else see the small hole??? Surrounded by blood?

In conclusion, I'm living somewhere in between the Shire and Bree, and there may be hobbit-eating Dragons, Komodo dragons or sabre-toothed Tigers (I'm keeping the autocorrected capitals there to keep them all sweet) hiding in the badger set on the other side of our hedge. Great.

Back in a tick with the stats.

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