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?!

Could the doorway have led to an outside entrance in the past? When I was young, lived in a house with a cellar, it also had an outside entrance down some steps. To allow delivery men access to the cool store, I guess.

Is the cellar close to the kitchen above? Those hooks were for hanging meat, poultry and such like. You could of course use them for dead bodies if you so needed.

Your local bobbies are clearly not much cop (pun intended). I think you need to call the Midsomer lads. Inspector Barnaby can smell a dead body a mile away and he's going to be very interested in that bricked up cellar.. HTH

DH is an architect and his professional opinion is "well they haven't done a bad job of it (the bricking up), there's electric running through there, but I wouldn't want those hooks"

Oh, he said the hooks would've been for hanging meat/game. And fair play OP, you've done well, cos I don't like the look of that cellar, it's a bit creepy. Do t blame you for not wanting to go down there but would absolutely judge you badly for not knocking that wall down, or at least a brick or two

Can anyone else see the faint outline of a figure in the bricked up doorway.

I'm still intrigued by the bricked up coal she'd and disappearing owners....

educatingarti ooh yes, that's a bit spooky!

zzzzz stop being a total wuss and at least get a photo by utilising a selfie stick or small child.

Cheap Endoscope

Get one of those for peeping!

Look, DD is already sick. Strap a video camera to her head with duck tape and send her down. If she never comes back, at least you will no longer be dealing with vomit!

(Hope she's better soon!)

Is your husband called Bluebeard? (do not google the fairy tale if faint hearted)

I've only ever seen it in print once - probably for that very reason. But the pictures of the hooks made me think of it.... .

I have a selfie stick in the house because I also have a 10 year old DD :) who proudly informed me that she had been right down into the underworld bunker so she may well find herself back down there later on today!

i have a selfie stick...never mind that forget to take it anywhere and have only used it on christmas day! ..it was a joke present from dh!

and i see the shadowy figure of the soul of poor headless Yorick on the bricked up door!

I have a selfie-stick too, but no cellar. I do have a disused septic tank somewhere in the garden, but no way am I potentially dropping my phone down there for you lot

We're on mains sewage, I think the tank was decommissioned at least a decade ago.

Still not going down there!

This is the thread that just keeps giving

at the big hooks in the cellar though