With a human skull in the garden?

Totally placemarking...

Is it weird to want to keep the skull then?

Cannot believe that no one has suggested that you (respectfully) use it in a fish tank....

well the sheep skull came up a treat.

nice bright and clean. Who wouldn't want to be squeaky clean like that?

We used to own a field which has some sort of burial mound in the middle. Every now and then some archaeologists would ask if they could dig it up or open it or whatever it's called. DH always said no because if anything was upset by the digging it wasn't going to go looking for them, it would come looking for him. Not the most logical chap, my old man, but I can see his point of view.

One day when I was digging in the field next to the moundy one, I dug up a large bone and he got this really scared look on his face. He convinced me it was a human leg bone and there must be a body under my potato patch. He's a wicked bugger, he knew perfectly well it was from a cow he'd buried there 30 years earlier, he just wanted to scare me!

This thread is so weird it's hilarious

Now that you have possibly disturbed something belonging to the graveyard, you need to expect some ghostly goings on.

Like in the movies.

I'm not sure if this is disturbing or fascinating! Did you ring the police? What did they say?

You need Ruth Galloway. She's the best bone archeology type person.

Do you live in Norfolk?

My garden backs onto an ancient church yard. We've seen several bones literally poking up out of the ground including part of a jaw. On the advice of the church warden I just put them back where they were. The church is Norman so they'll be thousands of bones I imagine. I'd definitely report a skull though.

Interestingly - when the church installed a toilet they dug the pipe trench next to our boundary and needed an archaeologist. She found loads of victorian era remains but nothing she was interested in, so she just put them back in the trench. I asked if she thought they'd be bones in our garden she said 'yes - undoubtedly'.

I'd still ring though. Watching with interest.

You should name it Yorick 💀💀💀

NO ONE is to put anyone else's head in the dishwasher 

I hurt myself laughing when I read that! I'm in bed resting a really painful shoulder and I did a half laugh, half cry of pain!

But really I'm just adding to the thread for nosiness in the hope that they ship the bones off to the Jeffersonian for Hodgkins to examine the particulates.

In the village of Slippers, in the county of Midsomer, in 1975, a cunning murderous murderer had a body disposal problem. 'Aha' she think to herself, if I bury it close to the fence, and it's undisturbed for long enough, no-one will be able to age it that accurately and they'll assume it's from the churchyard".

For, best beloved, dating techniques were not so good then, and DNA evidence unheard of.

And yea, it came to pass that the body was discovered. It had not been reduced to dust and ashes, but was skeletal. But the murderous murderer was out of luck. Dating had been revolutionised in the intervening interval, for skeletons as much as for anyone else.

It was shown to be a person who died some 40 years before the discovery.

Was the distraught widower really a mild mannered janitor?

But definitely agree, it needs to be treated with respect.

It's a bit weird that they move along under the soil to a new destination

Those friends of Fred and Rosemary West were arrested the other day .....

Their garden is being dug up .....

But it is interesting. Wouldn't it be amazing to find out who, male or female, when, what they did, looked like, lived like?

I am not sure the skull would even survive the dishwasher. it might disintegrate and clog the filter.

How very intriguing! I hope it turns out to be a Saxon skull. Wow.

Not the dishwasher. Really. Even if he/she is v old it's not dignified.

Another one wanting a picture. Have you called the police yet?

This is a bit of a real person - you don't put bits of other people in the dishwasher or stick tea lights in them or use them to display flowers unless you are into some really kinky shit

Forgot to say please! Can you show us a pic please :)

Can we have a picture at least? Could you put tea lights in the eyes?