human bones found at allotment!!!

[organicartist]

Human bones were discovered at a P'boro allotment site this week:

http://www.peterboroughet.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2058587&SectionID=845

and the follow up article:

http://www.peterboroughet.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2059986&SectionID=845

[organicartist]

[sawfish]

thank goodness they haven't found the ones on my plot yet!

;)

[cornykev]

Hope the old bill double dug the ground. ;D ;D ;D

[organicartist]

what an excellent idea kev! now I know what to do next time I need a spot of digging done  ;D

[shirlton]

something to brighten up a dull day eh!

[saddad]

It would hardly be a shock on our site, we go round three sides of a Victorian Cemy on a hill, nice quiet neighbours, no bother.... and any movement down slope is free bonemeal!
;D

[cornykev]

Hang on :o   is that a bone in the couch grass.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

It's a safe bet that someone will have manured their runner beans with a corpse at some point.

[Amazin]

Wouldn't surprise me - I've never had  any trouble growing stuff in my 'Pet Sematary' - the border directly under the windows. Our daft old dog is under the main bedroom (a good 4ft down, mind you), and my cat, who lived to 21, is beside him. In fact, most of the neighbours' pets have contributed to the soil condition over the years! The joys of living on the ground floor of a block of flats, I suppose!

The down side?

When one of the local kids is there, chatting to me as I work in the garden and I inadvertantly turn up a rather dilapidated bin liner...

:P ;D

[saddad]

Win some loose some..... I've disposed of both my parents... after cremation, well all that ash has to have some use.....
:-X

[OliveOil]

ooo how exciting... we are always finding bones on our plot - well my 9yo son is!  Alas they are cow bones and he has a whole collection of teeth that he finds.

[Trixiebelle]

I've got a 'nail graveyard' on my plot. MILLIONS of 'em ... all dead and rusty!

Never found anything remotely as interesting as Roman remains and I've definitely NEVER found any coins of any description. My allotment ancestors obviously had very deep pockets  ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've found a few animal bones, but I know people lived in the shed for a while in the Blitz, and there must have been a good many picnics on the plot over the years.

[Trixiebelle]

Don't think I'll start digging round my Anderson Shelter then ...  ::)

[Jeannine]

This is very creepy, we found a bone only last Sunday that looked exactly like a vertabrae and the size of a human one. I have kept it as it was odd....no couldn't be, I am getting paranoid now, it is creepy though, maybe it is from a cow, I will go and but oxtail this week I think and compare. mmmm XX Jeannine

[Geo]

Jeannine..Do the bones you found look like this ?...






G e o.. :)

[Jeannine]

Hi I am at work and the bone is at home but yes,actually the lower down photo,then the picture top left I think is the most similar, but I will check again when I get home XX Jeannine

[Trixiebelle]

GEO!!!! Now I'm wondering if any of those photos are of HUMAN bits  :o

BLEEEEUUURRCCHHHHHHHHHH! Hurry up and reply!

Jeannine ... do you not carry your bones round in your handbag?? I always do  ;D

Having said I never find anything on our allotments, I found the remains of an old gold pocket watch today!

[saddad]

I have a (broken) glass mine does that count?
::)

[Trixiebelle]

Broken glass mines have the same status as dead nail graveyards Saddad  ;D

We're not going to make the local papers!