Thanks to a Scottish kid named Jake, she has been able to identify these bones. (Read more Jake here.)
UD was just now clearing the winding paths she’s created through her woods, and from her first glance at the bones she thought deer (given that vast herds of them live atop her back hill), but she also ghoulishly played with the idea of human child for a moment.
This is exactly what the lower bone looks like. And who knew you needed it for – uh – boning your boots?
So where’s the rest of it? Jake always seems to score the whole skeleton. UD poked around, but has found nothing. She thinks maybe these bones washed forward in the recent very big rains.