The dig - day 2

We have started to find things. The foundations of a path have appeared along the side of the trench nearest the sheds. It appears to fall into two parts. One has a rubble foundation which may have been covered with crazy paving of which one slab is still in place. The other part seems to have been covered with gravel. We suspect that these were part of the Edwardian garden. With luck we will find better dating evidence tomorrow.
 
The other find is part of the skeleton of an animal – probably a cat – which was buried in a shallow grave. The head, tail and one pair of legs and all the feet are missing. These may have been disturbed by subsequent gardening and we may find them in the surrounding soil. The other rather bizarre possibility is that it's from a dead animal preserved by having it stuffed by a taxidermist and that the burial is of the parts not needed when the job had been done. We will obviously investigate further.

The skeleton – probably part of a cat