I found bones under my house

Voodoomelon

I'm doing up an old Georgian house at the moment, it was built around 1820. Was pulling up the hallway floorboards as they were rotted through to the earth below and found the following bones only a few inches below the surface of the soil (don't worry, not human!):

Picture 1

Lots of suggestions from everyone as to what they're from. A friend put me onto this link: http://www.from-ireland.net/custom.php?id=19

This particular line is interesting: "...no house would be built without some live animal being put under the foundation stone, a chicken, a kitten or a rabbit being common."

I've looked at chicken, cat and rabbit pelvis' online and they are all slightly different. What do ye all think they're from?

And what are the balls? They look and feel like bone too, a bit bigger than a Malteaser.

Also found these bad boys down the end of the garden:

Picture 2

This is where the first set of bones were found in the house:

Picture 3

Wild speculation is encouraged.

My name is URL

Let me know when you find the inevitable empty jars and a bag filled with piss

Fart

A fine pair of balls too, nice.

Johro

Mini Shergar.

eamonnq

Is this going to take over from the 'found a safe' thread ??!!








and we're off.......................4 posts while I was typing mine!!!

NIMAN

Aliens?

CianRyan

I thought my dog dug up bones once, it was just some pipes.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Jesus everyone is finding interesting things in their gaff. First the safe guy, now the bone guy.

I just keep finding my OH

I think you should move, your house is defo haunted. You have unearthed remains, now you gone and did it!

Voodoomelon

eamonnq wrote: »

Is this going to take over from the 'found a safe' thread ??!!

Possibly, god knows what's yet to be found!

anncoates

Please god don't let this thread be legendary.

El Guapo!

Manbearpig

Johro

I found a stirrup in my steak and onion pie.

Thunderbird2

Pic 2 looks like sheep .
Pic 1 reminds me of those little hex bags that were buried for luck/protection . Filled with herbs and bones ... Any teeth or hair?

johnayo

Fred And Rosemary West had your house rented before.:D

Skerries

i've just found a bone under my sheets

Victor

Bones? As in "Is life dead Jim, but not as we know it?"

Any sign of Scotty?

Voodoomelon

Thunderbird2 wrote: »

Pic 2 looks like sheep .
Pic 1 reminds me of those little hex bags that were buried for luck/protection . Filled with herbs and bones ... Any teeth or hair?

No teeth or hair, but what would the balls be? They aren't heavy like musketballs.

antodeco

Georgian houses freak me completely out! Your house is haunted by the way! I know from the other pictures!

Richard Hillman

It looks like something that people would use to sacrifice animals to some mad god. Probably 1800s pagans. Get onto somebody from Trinity about it.

My name is URL

Voodoomelon wrote: »

No teeth or hair, but what would the balls be? They aren't heavy like musketballs.

Billiard balls used to be made from ox bone. They look similar to that apart from size.

My guess is it's some other type of ball also made from bone.

con___manx1

CAT BONES MAYBE A KITTEN

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Ugh, Id say there's a little girl ghost there too.

Creepy.

Truncheon Rouge

I found a bone in my pants.

Maudi

Voodoomelon wrote: »

No teeth or hair, but what would the balls be? They aren't heavy like musketballs.

pic 2 looks like knuckle bones maybe sheep/pig/goat/deer .that sorta size

El Guapo!

con___manx1 wrote: »

CAT BONES MAYBE A KITTEN

Ok ok, No need to shout!

Voodoomelon

My name is URL wrote: »

Billiard balls used to be made from ox bone. They look similar to that apart from size.

My guess is it's some other type of ball also made from bone.

Interesting! They do look and feel like bone, but obviously can't be a natural shape.

December2012

A turducken?

theidiots

I'm off to bone Susan Boyle

Crann na Beatha

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Zillah

Voodoomelon wrote: »

"...no house would be built without some live animal being put under the foundation stone, a chicken, a kitten or a rabbit being common."

Ugh, humanity. Burying animals alive because magic.

Tipprobb

The balls are marbles, I don't know what the bones are.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Tipprobb wrote: »

The balls are marbles, I don't know what the bones are.

I think the bones are bones.

Mac-Chops

Wondering how humerus this thread shall be.

demanufactured

Op are you the bone collector?

Voodoomelon

Tipprobb wrote: »

The balls are marbles, I don't know what the bones are.

I think you're right!

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/marbles/305512-i-found-marble-today.html

Maudi

Voodoomelon wrote: »

I'm doing up an old Georgian house at the moment, it was built around 1820. Was pulling up the hallway floorboards as they were rotted through to the earth below and found the following bones only a few inches below the surface of the soil (don't worry, not human!):

Picture 1

Lots of suggestions from everyone as to what they're from. A friend put me onto this link: http://www.from-ireland.net/custom.php?id=19

This particular line is interesting: "...no house would be built without some live animal being put under the foundation stone, a chicken, a kitten or a rabbit being common."

I've looked at chicken, cat and rabbit pelvis' online and they are all slightly different. What do ye all think they're from?

And what are the balls? They look and feel like bone too, a bit bigger than a Malteaser.

Also found these bad boys down the end of the garden:

Picture 2

This is where the first set of bones were found in the house:

Picture 3

Wild speculation is encouraged.

did you check above the front door?georgian house.half moon/fan spread of glass..something.usually holy medals sometimes kids shoes were put there ....i often found the medals meself.

Dwork

Pffft. That's nothing. When i bought our current kip I decided to excavate a slurry tank. About a foot down, I found a human skeleton, complete with hole in skull, face down. The first idea was "shyte, this will delay things, lets peg it into the dumper and press on."

Decency prevailled(ok, it was my mates decency, but decency none the less) and the authorities were informed. Turned out it was a "Troubles" era corpse, someone who got the good news in the back of the head and a shallow grave for their troubles.

Much fuss ensued, which was a bummer as I had a tank to dig, but eventually, the archaeo-nerds got over themselves and things were moved, stuff was re-buried and the world went on. I'm not hugely keen on ever finding another buried skeleton. They're much less hassle when they're just in closets.

theidiots

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Voodoomelon

Maudi wrote: »

did you check above the front door?georgian house.half moon/fan spread of glass..something.usually holy medals sometimes kids shoes were put there ....i often found the medals meself.

Had a quick look before, will look in more detail this week.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

theidiots wrote: »

Maddie?

Ooooh, you are gona be in trouble with the norms.

WoollyRedHat

Stones, feathers, bones and beads... these are the things that I will need.
Anyone else remember that ryme? Well anyway, Stones, feathers and beads, those are the things that you'll need. For what, I don't know, just go and get them.

Smidge

Never mind posting on here OP.....

Judging by pic 3 you have an unmerciful amount of work to do in that house:eek:

Get off the fecking keyboard and start stripping that staircase!!!

Rastadoyle

looks like you have a bone to pick with the previous residents

telekon

Its quite normal to find old shoes under the floorboards in georgian houses but bones?

Anyway, lucky you doing a project like this one OP. I love georgian architecture, pity about the floorboards. I hope you're retaining as much as is humanly possible. I've spent the past few years putting right all the destructive sh*te the previous owners did to our place.

Good luck with it.

Dwork

telekon wrote: »

Its quite normal to find old shoes under the floorboards in georgian houses but bones?

Anyway, lucky you doing a project like this one OP. I love georgian architecture, pity about the floorboards. I hope you're retaining as much as is humanly possible. I've spent the past few years putting right all the destructive sh*te the previous owners did to our place.

Good luck with it.

tee hee hee. Humanly. Bones. Geddit?? Ok. Just me so. Feck.

Voodoomelon

Smidge wrote: »

Never mind posting on here OP.....

Judging by pic 3 you have an unmerciful amount of work to do in that house:eek:

Get off the fecking keyboard and start stripping that staircase!!!

Haha, indeed, i have a blog if you're interested, won't post it here through.

telekon wrote: »

Its quite normal to find old shoes under the floorboards in georgian houses but bones?

Anyway, lucky you doing a project like this one OP. I love georgian architecture, pity about the floorboards. I hope you're retaining as much as is humanly possible. I've spent the past few years putting right all the destructive sh*te the previous owners did to our place.

Good luck with it.

I'm one of few who is retaining everything. Every detail is being repaired, refurbished and restored.

Dwork

Voodoomelon wrote: »

I'm one of few who is retaining everything. Every detail is being repaired, refurbished and restored.

Good man. I'm the same, our house is from 1764, so I've kept every detail. We have open fires, candles and scullery maids. I shoot a peasant every wednesday and we have floggings on fridays. I love it, but the missus has a pain in her goujons scrubbing the flags. I'm using a steam powered YokelMac 1800 as we speak. The kids hate it. Always complaining when the line-speed drops and they have to shovel coal into the burners to get things moving. The good-old-days, eh.

ITS_A_BADGER

Snowball III ?

Boo2112

There's a graveyard in the middle of our housing estate and I'd a bad dream last week that the corpses were digging tunnels to get out and burst out from under my floorboards, could've been a premonition of your house!

Can't understand how any person could bury an animal alive not to mind under their own home.

Agent Smith

Whats this? Dig up our house month?!?

eamonnq

Agent Smith wrote: »

Whats this? Dig up our house month?!?

Yep, 'dig up your house and bury a safe' month!!