look what I've just found behind a really thin false wall in my cellar!

Ah, Guido – you are an archaeologist, iirc.

As has been said, many county museums will have similar finds – indeed, the mighty Pitt Rivers has a fair amount of British material, amid all the perceived exotica. All of it trying to ward off the Evil Eye.

Don't go in to the loft, at least not alone 😯

Grab your lube, it's luuuurvin' time 8)

Congratulations!

noteeth

we have a winner ladies and gentleman!

I don't want to win it. Don't give it to me!

Ah, Guido – you are an archaeologist, iirc

Yes, how you remember that?!. Seen plenty of this sort of thing. Cats mainly.
But the skull looks a bit clean and the head dress looks a bit 'volumous' to have spent a lot of time in a wall.
Interested to know more about the house.

what the hell should I do with it????

My first suggestion would be:

Don't take a picture of it and then post it on a MTB website with a thread title that draws readers in wondering if you've just found a retro steel lugged road frame from the early 50's, or a pair of ultra rare XTR thumbies.

That's tonight's nightmare sorted for subject matter, thanks!

Yes, how you remember that?!.

Takes one to know one. 😉

that is f***ed up

was it what-a-mess?

here's another, especially apt as I'm afraid this specimen has:

noteeth

this is the place: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/

the Samurai collection goes on display in May, it used to be pretty impressive so it'll be interesting to see what they've done with the place (I much preferred the old stairs though).

best thread for ages. new design for a headbadge for your bikes?

HOLY TITS!!

(I much preferred the old stairs though).

PRM has a very special place in my heart (Arch & Anth Oxon).

I, too, prefer the old stairs. I understand the rationale behind the re-fit, but it's somehow less… mysterious (when compared to going thru that door, into the somewhat gloomy shop/foyer, and then around the corner…

Noteeth- You work for OAU?

You work for OAU?

Nah, did my BA there 12 years ago, although I was (very) briefly at Wessex. Still mucking about with Palaeolithic stuff in my, uhh, spare time. Know a few peeps at the PRM – including a guy who has just completed his DPhil on material culture in British folklore… Ethnography begins at home! 😀

Are you at EH?

That is just odd.

Looks a bit like Sarah Jessica Parker

ok, one last one…

Great place for a date (honest!).

Yes still at EH till the government gets rid of us…..

including a guy who has just completed his DPhil on material culture in British folklore… Ethnography begins at home!

Dr Douglas?

Dr Douglas?

The very same. The lanky Scot. 😀

Its Shergar

You just have to love STW. Eclectic or wot?!

That is seriously freaky!
– oh and this is the funniest thread i've read for a while – "consult it on your next tyre choice"

Definitely get it as ahead badge!

I can now step in….
Anyone who knows MrNutt is sure to realise he doesn't live in a 'house' with a 'cellar' – he lives under an upturned Victorian bath hidden in the woods behind the Swindon Nationwide branch……

DrP

clearly your cellar contains the casting couch for x factor judges, don't worry they'll go away soon to a l'oreal advert.

I sense a long running thread…….

What DrP says is actually true, my upturned Victorian bath is the only thing that makes the screaming stop.

My mums house has a human skull and a hippo skull at the top of the stairs. Does that count?

She did bring them into the house rather than finding them though.

How about a STW 'Rate my Skull' competition?

Offer the artefact in the classiffed?

…O/T FS. full relic face headgear…or headbadge may suit Cove frames?

Prehaps Saracen will be interested in using it to advertised their newly revived bike brand with it?…(anybody recall the P.R. Museum exhibit of the shrunken heads used in an ad form the early 90s?!)

Someone I used to work with took an old bit of hardboard out of the back of the built in cupboard in his bedroom.

He found that on the other side was the inside of the built in cupboard that his next door neighbours had in their bedroom.

He'd always thought there was a bit of noise travel between the two houses.

Get yourself the best quality mop you can afford. You'll need it for cleaning up the blood that will soon be running down the walls

The STW Singletons' ride at Swinley next month is bit short of female attendees and rather over-subscribed with desperate enthusiastic males.

So, could you ask your new housemate if she's single?

I once went out with a girl who looked like that. Is it an Afghan Hound or a sheep?

Sell it to Hora.

Zip tie it to your handlebars fella!…used to be a mad DJ in Cardiff called lizard who had a longhorn skull on the bars of his chop…sure it could catch on!

Thats cool..wouldnt want it in my house though.
I would take it up north to the isle o skye and give it back to the wickerman. Sure he could sacrafice some buxxom lady on its return.

Northwind – Member

"what the hell should I do with it?!?!? "

Well, after you have it exorcised you can do whatever you want with it.

Yes what he said!

A brisk walk round the local park will tire it out and it won't kill you whole family (straight away)

If you have small children, it'd make an ideal post-Santa good behaviour incentive.

it appears to have disappeared, i can't see it

😕

[EDIT] scratch that i can see it now

but still

😕

Has it eaten him yet?