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?!

Well, that's an unfortunate, but apt, truncation of your post, zzzzz... :o

How close are you to the church? How old is your house? Could be a passage through to the church, if is the right side.

You might not want to read up too much on the subject of vaults...

Our house as children was a modern bungalow, but we did have a wall along the nearby sea shore that had a square hole in it and we speculated that it was a tunnel to an abbey that is now a ruin for the monks to bolt to a boat and escape. None of the village children had the courage to investigate and none of the adults could be bothered.

I can't believe that you had never explored your cellar and seen that door and the hooks! 😮😮

Am just feeding a few million children. I'll be back later to tell you our septic tank saga. But to keep you all going, look at the hooks inside our house.

What the jeff are they for??

I realised today that I pass by a grassy mound with a door in it on my way to work and the door is open - its never been open before! But its not in my garden so I'm too worried I'll get in trouble if I go exploring in it :( Though it looks like its just an old root cellar or above ground bomb shelter.

Obviously the hooks are for game. BIIIIIIG game.

Your house just keeps on giving.

Soup I snorted out loud at utilising an already diseased child and duct tape to explore zzzz's cellar!

One of my DC is fairly fearless and bribeable I should start hiring her out to be pushed into small dark spaces with a head torch on and recording equipment!

Are the hooks in the kitchen skull , near a fireplace? If so I suspect used as part of a chain attached to a spit.

Right you are, zzzzz

The hooks are in the hallway into the kitchen but as far as I know, it's always been a hallway. They are hanging directly in front of the cellar door. I know it seems like drip feeding - I'm sorry! I just never go down there (have irrational fear of being stuck down there and kids having to fend for themselves, which they'd love).

The old owners, who had been here for decades, told us we have a septic tank and that we'd need to empty it every two years. We arranged for it to be done, nice man came out, emptied 1000 gallons (I think?) and charged us £175.

Two years later we called up after receiving a reminder, nice man came out, said he couldn't reach the tank. Came back (after charging us call out fee) with longer hose but said he couldn't do it by himself. Charged us again and came back with longer hose and 2nd nice man. They couldn't find the tank. And charges us again.

Because of the extension that may happen (depending on how many medieval helmets we find), we have had to have a proper drain survey done, complete with mini endoscopes. It clearly states in the report that we have no septic tank.

So where did it go? And if we never had one, what did Nice Man number one empty for £175??

Weird things have happened here this week. Fox got all of my hens , first case of nits we've had in 9 years of parenting and the kids have mostly been really lovely to each other 😳

Something's afoot.

silverbirch

Noooo! A chain attached to a spit in the cellar????

Natsku you'd have to go down there to rescue the tiny kitten you just saw run in there though, wouldn't you?

Boring explanation for hallway hooks - christmas decorations? Misteltoe/luminous star thing?

And Skull - it is Friday the thirteenth.

Oh man, seriously?

I think I'm going to have to name change again. I'm not sure I like being called Skull 😧

zzzzz I'm in the process of very gently fleecing them back. They'll be sorry they messed with this foreigner. I have Nordic blood 💪

I told you nothing good will come out of this cellar!
They're evil I tells ya

Have you considered that your garden might have been part of the graveyard in the past & previous owners have just annexed a part of it? I envision that there there maybe several heads, all getting together for a chat-like, even a seance!

Oh no, sorry! Name? Other Name? aSBAON? What should we call you?

Good idea Skull I shall have to go rescue a poor little kitten next time I go to work