Keep finding bones while digging at new home

[Boness24]

So I moved into a new house last autumn. Now spring is here I’ve started digging in the garden to plant things. I keep finding bones; I’m sure they’re probably animal bones of some kind but my overthinking mind is getting concerned with how many I’m finding! (Ridiculous most probably).
I do know that they are most likely animal remains from buried pets etc, but how can I find out what animal they are from? I have found many bones over the last month but discarded them.
I’ll attach a photo of the ones found today. Big dog?

Have you washed them? They look like dahlia tubers??

They don't look like bones?

They look like roots or something?

i’ll wash them but they are definitely bones!
will wash them and take another pic.

Look more like tree roots

Pretty sure it’s bone. Would be embarrassing if tree roots! This is after a quick wash. Will wash further!

I can't think of any bone that's forked like that, barring a wishbone. And it looks too big for that.

Do you have a velociraptor buried in your back garden?

Ah, the second photo looks more like a butcher's bone for the dog.

Can tree roots be rock hard? I’m second guessing myself now

They don’t look like roots now they’re washed a bit

Butchers bone is reassuring! 😆

They look like the kind of bones a dog would eat!

They look like bones to me.

Maybe years of pets being buried in the garden.

When we moved to this house we found dogs buried in the back garden.

Watching in case it turns out to be a human bone🤣

They are big bones!! Unlikely to be from a dog. Something bigger.

A fox brought a bone like this into our garden. It was a butchers bone for a dog, they had stolen it from somewhere! Freaked me out at the time though 🤣

Bones that a dog would chew. Or a Femur. 😉

Yes I reckon butchers' bones - probably from beef joints (or pork), explaining the size. Find similar in my garden occasionally

I live in the house l was born in ( I'm 66) if anyone dug up my garden they would find bones of three dogs about 7 cats.. 5 rabbits.. 2 Guniea pigs.. loads of hamsters.. a couple of budgies..and maybe some butchers bones the dogs used to bury. But yes they are some kind of bone. Big dog or butchers.

Bigger like what!? A cow? The one that looks like a joint is big to be honest.

My sister found a human skull whilst gardening and ran inside and called our other sister who lives nearby and they intrepidly went back into the garden and my other sister also thought it was a skull as they could see the top of the head.

She dug around it and apparently they were both squealing the whole time such was the excitement and then the head came out and it was a mannequin head, the sort used as a wig stand probably from the 60s.

Yes a cow! As in, beef :)

Almost certainly cow limb bones. Big bovid/ungulate anyway. Big one's a humerus. The fork is the 'elbow' joint, the dip is where the hook of the ulna fits on to the humerus. Little one is a metatarsal I think, what would be a foot bone for a human but a lower leg bone for a cow! (archaeologist here!). If you have a local university with an archaeology department they might be interested in taking a look!

I think that looks like cow bones. Like others have said mostly likely from the butcher. Especially if they are similar.

That is hilarious! And is exactly the sort of thing that would happen to me.
apparently the previous owner was very odd, lived here 30 years before he died, had no lock for the door, just had a piece of scaffolding jammed between the stairs and front door to stop anyone entering. Which is odd but fine.
He apparently had a Rottweiler, who died. So maybe its bones the Rottweiler had from the butcher’s or even the Rottweilers remains?