What on earth have I found buried in our garden?!

[bunintheoven88]

Recently moved house and due to lockdown and decent weather have finally decided to tackle the garden.

I was digging up the very far corner of the garden and found whatever this is buried about 2 inches under the soil and covered in leaf litter, my DP thinks it is part of an old radio but I think part of an old computer as I spy a USB port, and I cant fathom why somebody would bury an old radio. Can anybody shed light on what this is?

Iv got a horrible feeling about it

@SarahAndQuack I think that looks like a large dog jaw bone, probably previous pet. Are you still digging or now planting over the area?

There's nothing on it. It doesn't have any storage capacity. The port is a mini or micro USD (I forget, and am too lazy to check). Might be from a digital camera.
Not video, the ports are wrong, and too small and not enough ports to be a motherboard.

@SarahAndQuack what is that?

We found a couple of bones when we were digging out the front garden. One was pretty big and looked like it could have been a hip bone or something.

OK I've found more images. It's 100% a Dualshock 3 Playstation 3 controller motherboard.

www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/DualShock_3

Nobody has a PS3 any more, they're ancient, the PS5 is about to come out. That controller would have been worthless years ago. It was either taken apart out of curiosity, or to take a part out in order to try and use it for something else. Or possibly the controller was smashed in a fit of rage and the bits went everywhere.

Lots of people bury old laptops in the garden

@LadyMonicaBaddingham please don't leave us hanging!

Jawbone, but I'm not sure of what.

I dug up most of a sheep's skull last summer, and countless other smaller bones. Also, bizarrely, a larger plastic dragonfly.

@BertieBotts Yes does look very similar if not identical to the dualshock circuit board in those images!
Mystery solved! I can go back to reading about big cat sightings in the UK now

@enough - oddly enough, the area's been very thoroughly dug over recently, as there was a large yukka there and I had to dig deep to get the roots out. It's possible long-departed Fido was buried under it, but I've not found any other identifiable dog bones in that area. I suspect it's been moved by another animal.

My Grandparents buried a swimming pool in their own garden. They stopped using it, was too expensive to maintain, and we moved away and so we didn't really use it any more. They were trying to sell the house and it put people off (we'd had a run of bad summers), so they filled it in it and turfed over it. Sold soon afterwards.

Few years later new owners were complaining to their neighbour about the reall dip in the lawn that was getting progressively worse. Neighbour didn't dare mention it though

Circuit board

Didn’t all the replies saying it was an old circuit board give you a clue that the pictures had posted? 😂

If I found a computer or computer component buried in the back garden it would worry me too!

Why?

Lots of people bury old laptops in the garden

Why?

Thinking about it, they probably could have fitted an icream van in the pool, before filling it in!

What? No Victorian Safe?

My dad dug up what he believed to be a human femur in my childhood houses garden.

He probably should have reported it, but decided to leave it be.

Wasn’t there a poster who dug up a human skull in her garden and started a thread about it?

Best we found was a cannon ball.
From the civil war. We are on an old battle ground.
Keep thinking that one day I will dig up an old roundhead when I'm weeding.

A friend of a friend found part of a human skull and posted (not here, on FB) about displaying it on her mantelpiece. She was reported to the police. Which, TBH, is the right thing to do.

To get rid of them without getting rid of them.

It would obviously make sense to do it in an area unlikely to be dug up in the future! I’m not saying I think it’s a good idea, just saying I know it’s a thing

My next door neighbour asked our landlord (who is very unwilling to spend any money) if she could have a new bath as the enamel had come off hers.

He said that he had one buried in a field and would dig it up for her. He apparently wasn't joking but it hasn't made an appearance yet. Not quite sure why he has a bath buried in a field.

@BertieBotts My DP still has his PS3 (although he also has a PS4). He's a real first gen gamer as he started his gaming life in the arcades playing Space Invaders!

To get rid of them without getting rid of them.

Huh. Weird. I pull the HDD, case it up as an external drive, then put the carcase in the e-waste (easy for me because I live in the middle of a huge city).