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?!

I'm also waiting for pippins update after she's told police about her old murder house. Surely you have to tell them about it now and they'll have to go look in the coal shed?

Oh goodness I'm worried about a holey anaemic head now too! I don't have much hair at the moment - will the rain get in? I'm going to have a damp brain

while all the experts are on the thread - can I ask a question on behalf of DD3? She want to be a forensic pathologist Molly from Sherlock and as it's a horrifically long training process, are there many actual paying jobs at the end of it all? Is it worthwhile in terms of fees and loans etc?

She'd love a skull and bones to investigate, can we join the party too OP? DD2 will make cake, DD3 is better at bread. I'll make the Pimms.

Can I say how much I'm enjoying your posts Ouriana , absolutely fascinating.

Can I come too and bring a brushy thing for the dig? I've always wanted to do that .

Wakeupfast I can bring brushy things too, I have a pastry brush and makeup brushes, and thanks to national geographic's "dig your own dinosaur" I'm practically a professional now!

"So proof the mail gun has been around longer than we thought."

mail gun Must be anglo saxon for "firing off an email".

Great! I have a pastry brush too and various kiddy paint brushes with thicker bristles. Might have a shoe brush somewhere too for a larger area .
I think that makes us incharge of the brushy job!

(I'd quite like to keep it too. Ssshhhhh.)

This thread needs to be in Classics! My pelvic floor nearly gave out at the "No skulls in the dishwasher" reprimand 😂

I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but does your area have a history of battles involving monarchs? You could have your very own Richard III on your hands. Rebury him with full honours and your favourite football team might win the Premier League

Once when the river near my house had flooded I found part of a skeleton; no skull though. You are required by law to report human remains to the police.
It has nothing to do with the parish council.

Excellent, so if anyone wants to help with the brushy part of the excavation they should come and see myself or WakeUpFast, as we're able to give out professional advice. We'd be working under close management of Ouriana.

Does anyone know Baldrick's phone number? We need someone with a geo fizzing machine, and we could do with an artist to show us all what OP's house would've looked like.

Also, we need someone to get REALLY REALLY excited when they did up a piece of brown teapot.

Does anyone know anyone with a camcorder?

And we need a tent too.

Plus:
Sieves
Colanders
Trowels (or old spoons)
Cardboard boxes (for pottery and bones)
A big yellow digger
Plasters (just in case we hurt ourselves)

ConferencePear I did wonder if it was worth calling them as they probably can't even remember where the churchyard is (although I'm starting to like them a bit more now that they're objecting to people turning their conservation area gardens into executive houses) but I thought I should try to be polite. They know where I live.

Glad you lot have it all under control. I can supply a tent, a paddling pool, a slip'n'slide and absinthe.

ouriana

MOJ won't really be interested in a bunch of mnetters having a tea party and doing a spot of gardening, will they?

Licence-schmicence, we don't need one of them.

Ok, I'll fetch DP's van and fill it with the contents of the shed. Plenty of buildy things in there.

Alcohol you say? I'll fetch that too and in my picnic basket I have some really posh champagne glasstics (plastic glasses). We'll look all proper.

Poor old YS is going to be properly gutted he's missing all of this.

DS1 did his show and tell, sans skull, on Monday. So more of a 'tell' really. He and his mates have decided that YS probably moved out of the churchyard into our garden as we're more fun. I think that's a compliment?

RedOnHerHedd

Yes, I did my post doctoral research on brushy things for excavations. I would definitely class myself as an expert.

Definitely a compliment!

I can contribute to the dig gardening picnic, little plastic wine glass holders with a spike on the end that you put in ground to secure said wine glass. DH refuses to use them on the grounds that they are, and I quote - too wanky and he will look like a right knob. I think MNers will appreciate their usefulness though, especially as they could be used as part digging tool/part alcohol securer

We're gonna be awesome! YS is going to be so proud of you for doing this for him OP.

I bet YS is looking down on us with a twinkle in his eye not a tea light.

Miffle that's amazing! Multipurpose diggy wine glasses.

Miffle You genius! That's exactly what happened to his head!

T'was a calm evening in the Shire. Mr and Mrs Smith had had a busy day fixing their wattle and daub. They decided to treat themselves with just a splash of real ale but fancied taking advantage of the mild weather and beautiful views over the neighbouring fields.

'Aha', exclaimed Mr Smith, 'I spy a perfect spot for our nightcap' and set about arranging two deckchairs next to a beautifully straight fence bordering a churchyard.

Mrs Smith handed him his glass and they sat down with a satisfied sigh. They raised a toast to the end of another productive day, had a sip then spiked their Lakeland wine glasses into the ground.

'Oh my', said Mr Smith, 'I believe I have cometh up against a stone.' Whereupon he proceeded to drive the spike further into the ground...

I've told this tale on here before, but the one time I persuaded DH to use them (at a picnic at a National Trust park, already many steps too wanky for DH ), we set everything up, including diggy wine glass spikes, and were sitting and enjoying, when two boys kicked their football into our midst - knocked DH's spiked glass and the contents went all over the crotch of his jeans.

The spikes went back into the picnic hamper and haven't reappeared since.

When I was working in archaeology there was a rule that every dig had to be within a quarter of a mile from the nearest pub.
Do you qualify Slippers ?