With a human skull in the garden?

[Slippersandacuppa]

Because I've never been in this situation before.

We've been tidying up the garden and have piles of rubble all over the place. One of our rickety old fences borders a graveyard (very old belonging to ancient church) and I'm assuming the skull sort of drifted under our fence and has been near the top of the soil for a while. I hope.

I've googled but can't seem to find much info. I'll be contacting the parish council on Monday but wondered if it warrants a call to 101 (or whatever it is) to register it just in case it's not a graveyard wanderer

Anyone had a similar experience?!

Oh, it would have been a nail.

SocialDisaster

And now I'm reading up about trepanation. The hole looks rather small for that.

But - bloody hell!
www.trepan.com/

Copied from a website i can't link because the page keeps refreshing as I go back and forth!

Got a migraine? Maybe it would feel better if a doctor drilled a hole into your skull – without anesthesia. But probably not. The process of intentionally punching a hole in the skull – known as trepanation – was once considered the best option for epileptic seizures, mental disorders and head injuries, and involved some of the most amazingly terrifying medical instruments you’ve ever seen. It has been around at least since neolithic times, and some people actually believe that it has a place in modern medicine.

webecoist.momtastic.com/2010/07/12/mad-medicine-14-crazy-cures-from-ages-past/

There's some weird pictures of how piles were treated with hot rods (for those interested!)

Wakeup My eyes

It would have had to be a badass worm to do that.

Leg pictures. We have big grass here in the Shire. And feet

Seriously.

The dog wants to eat the end bit. Was that the interesting bit?

Wanders on to thread wondering if YS could be a sidekick of Richard III.
Now wanders back into the kitchen to refill wine glass.

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Google tells me the average adult male femur is 48cm long. Looks like this one is only 18cm so even accounting for the missing ends and people being shorter in the olden days I'm guessing it doesn't belong to Yorrick?

A friend suggested Lord Lucan

What a life. A hole in the head that may have killed you. Buried just outside the churchyard or drifted under a fence then arrested 500 years after your death. Possibly missing your short leg.

Placemarking! :)

So definitely not human then. Hobbit & komodo dragon still distinct possibilities. I hope for the safety of your DC that it's the former, OP...

I don't know. I imagine a hobbit with a missing leg could be quite fierce.

Could it really not be a sheep?

Dunno - my anatomy knowledge, somewhat rusty at the best of times, is definitely limited to humans.

Dog maybe?

Start another thread asking for a vet to identify, then link here for us.

This thread is hilarious/weird/sad.

Come on :)
Sabre-toothed tiger femur and hole in the top of the skull - pretty obvious really!
Did the skull rattle? The tooth may have broken off...

n.b. small femur and small hole = cute & cuddly sabre-toothed tiger cub... Maybe a pet that was over-exited... I think it isn't Yorick but Fred Flintstone!

Perhaps Yorick took the hobbit's leg with aggression as he was starving. As he was outside the faith and could not get alms. Gandalf smote him which left him with the hole in his skull.