Removed a massive rockery and a few old shrubs to find what could be a grave. I'm hoping this is just a fancy planter!

by linkthesink

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  1. Too late, you’ve disturbed it now.

    That noise you’ll hear when dropping off to sleep tonight. Yeah, that’s not the pipes… they’re coming for you.

  2. It might be stairs going to a vault underground.

  4. Need to think of a better cover story. This one won’t wash.

  6. Now you have to dig it up and if you find any bones,

    you must call the police, so they can check if they are ancient or not

  11. I should think calling the council should be the first step. They may have records that could confirm or deny.

  12. So we’ve got bombs and burials in people’s gardens today then. What will it be tomorrow? 

  17. Time for a bit of geo phys. Could be an entire bronze age village under there, and it’s not gonna make a CGI reconstruction of itself.

  18. The worst part about it being a grave is how many more are there.

  19. I really want to know what it could be now after seeing everyone’s ideas of what it could be.

  20. If you call the police about this you might be able to get them to dig your garden over for you?

  22. There’s a grave in the garden…

    What?

    In the garden. There is a grave.

  26. Update: thanks for the suggestions and the laughs. To complicate things there was a Methodist church here before these houses were built but why would one plot be left?

    House built in 1949.

    Hopefully I’m here tomorrow or I’ll have crossed over.

  27. They left the bodies and they only moved the headstones…

  28. This is the same plot as *Curfew* by Lucy M Boston. Don’t be tempted to buy any neighbouring bell towers.

  29. It’s really kicking off in the garden category of this sub today!

  31. Could have done with a few bones today for my Sunday roast gravy stock, send me a few for next week if you find any please. DM for address, yours Issei Sagawa

  32. You are allowed to be buried in your own garden (providing your own the land or have the landowner’s permission) BUT you do have to include that detail on the deeds to the house.

  35. Looks like it’s definitely, maybe, probably a gateway to hell that’s not been looked after.

    Just clear it out and enjoy your evil underworld.

  39. Archaeologist here. It’s a possibility, though it’s unlikely to be very old, given its from the present day ground level. If it’s a grave then it would the remnants of one of those above ground mausoleums. Happy to have a chat via DM if you’d like. Up front, though, most important point is if you find any bones then you are legally obligated to contact the council or the police.

  44. My parents made something almost identical in their garden when I was a kid. It was a sand pit for me and my brother to play in.

  45. It’s the entrance to an air raid shelter. Parents friends had one identical in their garden that was still used as an outhouse (albeit underground) in 1980s.

  46. Pretty neat, actually!

    After the archaeologists have dug it up,it’ll be registered as found and cleared so nobody will look there again. Meaning that it’ll be just right for Aunty Muriel or whomever. 😀

  47. Bomb shelter with a lid that was lifted at the oval cutout on the edge?

  48. If you’re lucky it’s a set of stairs to an underground bunker or shelter.

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