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?!

Phew. Although poor sheep What happened to him or her?

Will everyone please stop leaving their bones in my garden?

This reminds me of the day I found a perfectly severed small grey cats head in a plant pot of thyme that I was repotting. That I had been eating for about a year. The herbs,, not the cat.

I had dug over the garden the previous winter and used the soil in pots.

DP was away at the time. I put it at the back of the garden with the pot over it. until the flies came.

I had no choice but to bag it up in approx 75 black bin liners and put it in the rubbish.

I drank a lot of wine before I got the courage to do that.

If you're right akkakk, and it's a perfectly plausible theory, YS's head is way older than the church. Like, 10000 years old.

Just found this little nugget :

According to paleontologists, saber tooth tigers must have also preyed on prehistoric humans, but there is no evidence to support this claim.

There is now!

Are there any sheep or hobbits, or sabre-toothed tigers in Hamlet?
My money is on props fallen out of the rucksack of an itinerant actor on his way to Stratford.

Shannith wasn't there a Keat's? poem about the pot of basil where someone kept a head in it? Was someone trying to recreate this, only your pot of thyme was too small for a human head. Macabre.

Shannith

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Isabella and the Pot of Basil. Here.
In summary - Isabella loves Lorenzo. Her brothers disapprove. They kill Lorenzo, tell Izzie that he's gone sailing. L comes back as some sort of ghost, Izzie finds the body, cuts off the head, brings it back and plants it in a pot of basil which then grows well enough to make copious amounts of pesto. Evil brothers work out L is in the pot and steal the basil. There is no more pesto. I'm pretty sure that's correct.

My money is on props fallen out of the rucksack of an itinerant actor on his way to Stratford.

OMG, OP - I think you'll find the skull is the original Yorick. And just in time for Shakespeare's anniversary too. I sense a moneyspinning opportunity with gullible cultured tourists.

What else you got down the back of the ossuary garden, op?

I have enjoyed this thread mightily! All I've found in my garden is a set of false teeth

So, is the skull also from a sheep?

Are we talking Shyorrick the Sheep here?

Some years back, the next door farm were digging out some foundations and came across a skeleton. Police got involved. Turned out to be a Roman legionary, which was much easier as far as paperwork goes.

So, is the skull also from a sheep?

No that is definitely not a sheep cranium - it would be the brainiest baa lamb ever!

I've just read back over the thread and realised there are loads of questions I didn't answer - sorry! I don't have a photo of the front, I'm not freaked out by the garden yet, and we moved here so the kids could have a swallows and amazons childhood but this is taking it a bit far.

I'm trying to go to sleep but wondering if we may have pissed YS off by arresting part of his head? I mean, he's not been that far away from it for at least 10,000 years. PC Dogman said they have two holding cell blocks and the closest one is roughly 10 miles away. He might not like that very much.

And the sheep might be cross about all the attention. They don't like being in the spotlight.

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Sorry about your eyes Slippers

www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/22/death-city-grisly-secrets-victorian-london-dead

This is an interesting article about how the Victorians dealt with dead people.
It's actually not surprising finding a skeleton or human remain in your garden. How many people have lived on earth and died? We're probably all on top of a skeleton or human remains right now. Good night! Hope that doesn't scare you!

Fret not, OP, I bet Yorrick is loving it. A few centuries in a secluded churchyard must have been a little dull. Now he's starring in his own crime drama.

When you wake in the night and hear clicking and scraping, that'll be his jaw and lower skull out looking for the bit you've given to PC Upanddown.

It's nearly midnight OP. Listen carefully

That hole in the top of the skull... Who says it was made from the outside? What if it was made from the INSIDE 😮? That would explain a small neat hole with no fracturing.... Maybe he was decapitated and his head stuck on a pike, placed in a central village/town location (just outside the church) as a deterrent? Then his head eventually fell off the pike, rolled along the hedgerow and settled in what is now your garden.

Sleep well, OP.

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Clicking and scraping in the night - oddly enough, that happened to me last night (in Australia, so after this thread). Woke up in the small hours to hear rustling and then very fast footsteps - assumed DS1 had needed to rush to the loo for some reason, so got up to check he was ok (he almost never gets up in the night).

Heard toys being played with! So assumed he might be sleepwalking (never done it before but you never know...) and put the big room light on. NO child! Followed the sounds and...

bugger me, there was a socking great grey possum in the house!
No idea how it got in (still need to work that out) but it needed to go out, so I went to open the back door and by the time I got back it was trying to go up the chimney . It didn't seem very scared of me, I have to say - just behaved pretty much like a cat and looked at me, while I was coaxing it to come on out of there. It was pretty cool, actually (haven't found any excreta of any kind yet, guess I won't think it's so cool if/when I do!)

Count yourself lucky Thumb. I once woke in the night in Oz to hear something crossing the floor. Not only was it a cockroach; it was a cockroach large enough to make audible footsteps on carpet.

Yeah, that's bad shiny - I haven't heard one walking across the carpet yet, but occasionally the buggers fly around and that's a sound you don't want to hear in the dark!!

Whenever I miss the sunshine of Oz, I remind myself about the homicidal wildlife. Oh, and fucking Spinifex (still picking it out of my socks, 6 years later..).