Houses Built On Ancient Buriel Ground

[renegadefm]

Not even sure if I'm in the correct section for this but here goes. 

 

I live in a mid terraced house of 4 houses. 

My neighbour has recently told us that she has discovered recently that the row of houses that we live in was built on an ancient buriel ground. 

 

I can't find out anything on the deeds about it, but the houses are over 100 years old, so information like that could be patchy. 

I asked her where did she find this out, and she said it was her landlord that found it out. 

 

It made me think because we live in a village with a chapel and there is no grave yard on the site of the chapel, and our houses are about 300 yards from the chapel, so you would assume our houses are too far from the chapel for it to be connected to the supposed buriel ground. 

 

Apparently she regularly digs up broken pieces of bones in her garden when tealing things, which suggests the story stacks up. 

 

My back garden is paved over so I wouldn't know for sure. 

 

How can I find any information out, as it would have to be information that dates back to over a hundred years ago. 

[jno]

members of one  of my families used to own the village forge, about 200 years ago. The last one sold it on to another family, and it's still there, only now it's a garage - they just moved from horses to cars over the years.

[smurfchops]

Can we see the image from your partners phone ?

[Barmaid]

Any ideas?  Yes, look at the tithe maps.

Plus the other stuff I have suggested.

[renegadefm]

smurfchops, 

Yes if I knew how to upload it on here. 

[Tuvok]

Upload to

https://imgbb.com

and then paste the link here

[Canary42]

Regarding Smithy, extraxt from English Heritage website :-

 

Wayland's Smithy is an atmospheric historic site about a mile's walk along the Ridgeway from the Uffington White Horse. A Neolithic chambered long barrow, it was once believed to have been the home of Wayland, the Saxon god of metal working.

Human remains found on the site indicate that 14 people were interred in an earlier burial structure between 3590 and 3550 BC. Between 3460 and 3400 BC a second far larger barrow was constructed on top. It is the ruins of this that can be explored by visitors to the site today.

[renegadefm]

I emailed the map company, and I got a reply. 

They explained that Smithy refers to a blacksmiths shop. 

There was a blacksmiths about 50 yards from my house, but that is now a fish & chip shop which now has been re-named The Old Forge Cafe.

The thing that interests me is the area of land where my house is now has curved black dots on the map, yet the area next to it is just blank. But I can't understand what the curved black dots mean?

 

[Canary42]

I think it may mean marshland, but I am not sure.

[jno]

rough pasture maybe - have a look at the symbols on the right side of this

https://maps.nls.uk/view/128076891

[Canary42]

... or grassland ?

[Canary42]

ooops, jno responded while I was searching - that looks a good link.

[renegadefm]

jno, 

Thanks, it just says the curved dots means Furze, but I dont know what furze means. 

[Captain2]

Furze is another  word for gorse bushes, ie land left in the wild.