To think there is a grave in my garden?

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NC for this as the pics are outing.

Moved in to my house in April and it has what I thought is a really ugly raised bed in the garden. Now the summer has arrived I've realised it gets no sunshine on it at all so isn't a raised bed after all.

DD and I were pottering our there this afternoon and we came across this plaque on the raised bed.

WTF.

Is it a coincidence or is it a grave?!

I realise I could be clutching at straws here but I do know a few people who refer to their dogs as their sons and daughters. Mind you I wouldn't fancy digging up a dead dog either

I bet its just ashes there. Still least they are marked, some respect shown I suppose!.

Crikey. Hope it’s just a raised bed!

I remember that Robert Bolt, the writer of Lawrence Of Arabia was buried in his back garden.

I think it is just a raised bed that was once a memorial garden. Like a pp, I find it so sad to think it was probably the old ladies son and she has become to frail to tend it and then passed away. It would be lovely if you could plant something nice like a rose bush or little fruit tree in the garden and pop the plaque back underneath when you have finished the work you plan to do.

Fascinating!

I didn't know a grave was legal in a back garden. Oh the things you learn on Mumsnet!!

Shamelessly place marking so I can see what happens!

@pinkmagic1 I'd like to keep the plaque as it was obviously important to somebody at some stage.

I have a lovely cherry blossom tree in the middle of my grass and I may put it under there.

I don't want to keep the memorial/grave/raised bed but I wouldn't want to get rid of the memories completely.

I have seen films that start like this...

I'm getting popcorn 🍿

OP, get the shovel! 🧟‍♂️

I agree if there's someone buried there you can't just dig them up. You need permission for an exhumation.

Only if you know they are there...

I wouldn’t be able to stop myself digging. I’d then be asking the council to come and move it!

Buy a few cheap old Roman coins/bits of broken jewellery stick them in the soil then after a few days take a few of them to your local museum/uni archeology dept & ask if they know what they are. They'll probably be right round to dig it up for you. TIP hide the plaque before they get there.

I agree with some others could be a still born son or scattered ashes.... would freak me out seeing the plaque though!!

My old house was my Nan's house before and when we dug up the garden we did find bones!!! A small skull and some bones definitely not human bones, checked with my Nan - they'd buried the dog at the bottom of the garden 50 years ago and she'd forgotten all about it!

Creeeeeepy, you're brave to dig it up OP!

Could be a stillborn son? I doubt it's a fully grown adult, just by the shape of it.

We have a family grave in a garden. Council were OK with it provided the area was fenced off and it went on the deeds of the property.

@EileenAlanna genius!

One of the homes that Ben Fogle visited in his recent series belonged to a woman whose husband was buried in the garden. Think it was in Wales.

Placemark!!

I've just tried to have a look on google maps to see if I could see what it used to look like but I can't zoom in enough to see it

@MrsHardbroom I've often thought of burying my husband in the garden

Any chance you can start digging now?

That’ll give the neighbours something to gossip about A the new neighbour digging a large hole in the garden by candle light.