Allotments 4 All
Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: organicartist on February 20, 2007, 16:15:16
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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
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thank goodness they haven't found the ones on my plot yet!
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Hope the old bill double dug the ground. ;D ;D ;D
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what an excellent idea kev! now I know what to do next time I need a spot of digging done ;D
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something to brighten up a dull day eh!
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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
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Hang on :o is that a bone in the couch grass. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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It's a safe bet that someone will have manured their runner beans with a corpse at some point.
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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
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Win some loose some..... I've disposed of both my parents... after cremation, well all that ash has to have some use.....
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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.
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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
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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.
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Don't think I'll start digging round my Anderson Shelter then ... ::)
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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
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Jeannine..Do the bones you found look like this ?...
(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4520/skel06za2.jpg)
(http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/210/humanvertjw8.jpg)
G e o.. :)
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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
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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!
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I have a (broken) glass mine does that count?
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Broken glass mines have the same status as dead nail graveyards Saddad ;D
We're not going to make the local papers!
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Jeannine ... do you not carry your bones round in your handbag?? I always do ;D
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;D ;D ;D ;D the mind boggles ;D
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Sorry I am home but can't find it I must have left it in the shed at the P.Patch, I know I kept it and will be there on Saturday ,it just has to be a cow bone,I am just getting paranoid like I said XX Jeannine
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I have found the bone, i felt a proper idiot when I thought it was lost,it was at the lottie in a raised bed,John had chucked it from the shed thinking was junk!!
Anyway I have it in front of me.It is not at all like the top pictures, they are long and point, but it does resemble the top left hand side one.
If I take a picture of it,how do I get the picture on the forum,never done that.
Still feels creepy, but it has to be a cow...doesn't it ?
XX Jeannine
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Must be a former allotment holder. Ultimate form of composting!
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Must be a former allotment holder. Ultimate form of recycling!
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Threw himself on compost heap in true gardeners spirit.
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Must be a former allotment holder. Ultimate form of recycling!
;D ;D ;D
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Threw himself on compost heap in true gardeners spirit.
Trying to save money to the last no doubt. Why waste it on a funeral, just do it yourself!
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Why not pop into yor local vets and ask if they can identify it for you!
That will give them something to chat about for weeks if it does turn out to be human!! ;)
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Go on then woman don't keep us in suspence, bone idle that one. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Ok , OH is trying to load the photo thingy on my new laptop and you can tell me what it is,and no I am not going to the vets,I feel daft enough telling you lot about it, I just know it is going to be an animal, can you imagine how many dopes like me came out of the woodwork with their funny bones( sorry) after the find in Peterborough. Watch this space. XX Jeannine
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Trying to load a picture
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Well it looks like I did it, thanks Dan.Ok so what is it? I have three other pictures from different angles It is about 41/2 inches at it.s widest point. It is worn down on the points and looks very old XX Jeannine
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Looks like C1 ( top bone of the neck) but not human! ;)
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Cervical (ie neck) vertebra, but if it's 4 1/2 inches across, it's far too big to be human. Probably cow.
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Oh what a relief,my asparagus won't be dug up then !!! It was a bit too creepy for me as I had found this, thought it odd, decided to keep it then shortly after read the start of this post,thanks for identifying it I had visions of digging and finding the other parts too, XX Jeannine
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so, has it improved your brassicas? ;D
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Oh you are bad, I saw the topic had been answered again and my heart jumped into my mouth. I am worrying now about when I fill find the rest of the cow.. XX Jeannine
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Mrs Project & I went on hols to County Clare in Ireland a few years ago and wandered round an old derelict monastery. It had a graveyard with headstones going back many hundreds of years. Lots of headstones but not many plots - with limited space there were multiple interments in each space.
In one particular corner we noticed a few odd shaped "stones" lying about on the ground, and in a few minutes had gathered together a collection of about 20 finger/toe bones (maybe a pre-Beckham metatarsal?), bits of rib, and even fragments of skull. Presumably every time the gravedigger dug a new grave he inadvertently disturbed the previous occupants.
It was immensely tempting to take them home and secrete them about our garden then invite the local constabulary to investigate and do a bit of double-digging, but fortunately we are upright and honest and left the bones on the grave we found them by. ::)
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My garden plot was part of the large house next door, the particular area under my raised beds was where the family buried it's pets! Supposed to be cats, dogs, a goat and a Horse buried under there ! :o
Not gonna dig too deep - just in case! :)
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i had a friend that used to work for the council gardens squad in Aberdeen, one of his taskes was everyday walking around the cemetery in the centre of Aberdeen and re burying any bones he found, he often came across skulls and leg bones as well as a whole host of little bones most often kicked out by burrowing rabbits!
It certaintly kept the conversation going in the pub!
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My allotment is at the back of a cemetery and I find a lot of human bones there.
I think its going to be a cremation for me.
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last update on the story.
http://www.peterboroughet.co.uk/template/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=845&ArticleID=2072304
check out the video - whilst we all like a bit of help digging our plots i dont think this is what she imagined!!