With a human skull in the garden?

Perhaps you could sell it to the Strafford upon Avon theatre. I'm sure they need props and do props need understudies?

Gosh. I'm sort of placemarking because this is fascinating but I'd love to know how this turns out, slippers.

I recently came across a church which had been converted into a house about 20-odd years ago, but they'd left the churchyard with all the gravestones in the garden. I'm not at all woo, but it struck me as a bit freaky. We did wonder if the bodies had been moved but the stones left or not.

This has inadvertently turned into one if the funniest threads on mn for some time! Ds2 would be devastated if we dug up a skull and he couldn't keep it, he worries me sometimes!

dinosaurs you are very cross, but i just don't believe in the woo! I woul dfreshen you up a treat under th etap if the dishwasher is so offensive and set you next to the sheep and baby bird. And gaze at you with pride, if that makes you any less cross.

I wouldn't dig you up, but if you'd made the llght of day then surely you'd rather sit on a shelf than wallow in a manky puddle for passing dogs to sniff? I promise to dust more often.

DinosaursRoar I find nothing weird about holding the ex-container of a brain though. It's a biological object.

You'd HATE the catacombs in Paris......

I'd be happy for my skull to be dug up and taken for Show And Tell! And I think a dishwasher shower would be quite exciting after decades underground.

Hopefully your skull belonged to someone with a good sense of humour

I don't mind the idea at all. I'd much rather be given a nice clean up and then popped on a shelf or in a nice aquarium and be involved in family life a bit.
I'm planning on donating myself, then maybe a cremation when I'm handed back. But if someone wants me for their fish tank I'd make an exception and just have the spare bits mulched. I've quite a nice skull, I think I'd bring a bit of style to proceedings.

My Dad has a real skeleton, was once used for teaching purposes. He (Fred) comes out at Halloween. My Dad likes to take him for a drive in the car.. He is part of the family!

You can't put the skull in the dishwasher - that would Finish him off!

DM has a half medical skeleton(minus skull) in her museum, DSister and I used to play with it as children in the 70's, do new regs mean we need to do something with it now? Really very fond.
As a side note bleach brings up skulls beauifully, just added a badgers skull to a sheeps in the folly to scare visiting teenagers
Yes 101 and be prepared for your children to never forgive you when you can't keep it.

I think in honour of Shakespeare, you ought to do a tribute and post it on YouTube. 'Alas poor Yorrick, I knew him, Horratio'.

What a surprise Slippers. You must have got quite a shock when you found it!

Do you feel the same about your garden? I mean are you spooked at all?

I grew up near a place with a screaming skull. Father knew the people who owned the house, and therefore the skull. The story was that if the skull was removed from the house then it would scream. It sat in the hall way from what I remember.

Have you called the police yet?

We are getting ready to build a extension on chapel land. Very Old chapel, with no grave yard. But it does sport a nice 1980's mini estate of detached houses. My house backs onto the chapel (shudder)

LaContessaDiPlump - it once contained a real person's brain. So yes, it's weird to want to own a bit of another human being

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia - what you want to do to your own bodily parts is your business, but noone is putting me through an eco cycle after I've shuffled off this mortal coil. It would be undignified and definately the sort of thing to trigger a full scale haunting, I'd be trying to properly shit you up if you'd done something like that to my bones. Just digging me up, these things happen, I'd not want to bother you that much, but put my remains through a kitchen appliance and I'd be fuming, setting off all your DCs talking toys to creep you out and building pyramids out of your spice jars when your back was turned...

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I assumed it would be criminal/ unethical/ unholy or something to own, buy or sell human bones but all the stuff I read on the web said it's not. Laws apply to human tissue. Bones are fair game

Bones are human tissue. However they are not covered by the Human Tissue Act 2004 in all circumstances - which is why the Google advice may have been confusing. You do need to be very careful though - the law is confusing and interpretation of the HTA is still evolving. Don't let anyone other than your household see the skull until you know how old it is - it is a breach of the law to display it unless you can prove it is more than 100 years old.

I used to live in a house which was down the hill from a cemetery. It had been used as such for 100s of years. My neighbour was digging out his cellar and found a skull the had wandered all the way down the hill.

i just took a picture of my bone display....but it's just too clarted with dust to put on the WWW. I may dust and dishwasher them tomorrow for you all.

Could use it as a fancy brooch.

Or or or one of those things for tying scarves. Thread part A through eye socket 1.... How original. Start a new daft craze trend.

ouriana shortly after I started work in a Local Authority Heritage Dept we were moved to a different floor. During the course of the move one of my colleagues rediscovered a Tupperware box with some human bones in under his desk. I often think how horrified the person's family would have been if they had known the fate of their loved one many centuries in the future!
(it was also during this move that we claimed we needed a fridge not for food but to keep important archaeological samples in, cue frantic digging in flowerbeds outside to fill random sandwich bags with soil!)