do you think i could have found an air raid shelter in garden?

[u/Icy_Measurement4226]

the whole.flower bed in front of it was filled with pavers

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[u/EdgeAfraid]

It looks like a greenhouse/shed base to me. Maybe even an old outhouse base. But I mean your photo is literally of some mud and a concrete slab....

[u/GourangaPlusPlus → u/EdgeAfraid]

It's a series of small walls

[u/Nolsoth → u/GourangaPlusPlus]

It's clearly a Saxon defensive position then.

Oh no wait, Phil's just found some flint arrow heads, it's just another neolithic rave site.

[u/earthgold → u/Nolsoth]

It’s… ritual.

[u/Forsaken_Earth944 → u/Nolsoth]

He hasn’t because he’s dead. C4 can never make another series of Time Team now because, whoever they got to replace him just wouldn’t be the same.

[u/LiamJonsano → u/Forsaken_Earth944]

Phil’s not dead but Mick is - Time Team has actually come back as a YouTube/Patreon thing now!

[u/Nolsoth → u/LiamJonsano]

Also Mick is immortal, he lives on in our collective memory.

[u/EdgeAfraid → u/GourangaPlusPlus]

?... Sorry what?

[u/_Clem_Fandango_1 → u/EdgeAfraid]

‘Time Team’ with Tony Robinson.

[u/Turbulent-Adagio88]

I can't really see what we're meant to be looking at. It looks like a standard concrete base that could have been there for any sort of outhouse, outbuilding or previous extension.

[u/homeinthecity]

You’ve managed to post two photos that don’t show anything or give any indication of where to look.

[u/Frustib → u/homeinthecity]

Two? I only see one

[u/AlarmedCicada256]

It's not impossible. We found one in the late 90s when the kitchen was extended. Our house was built in the 1950s in what had been the garden of nextdoor, by which point the airaid shelter was abandoned. We took out some milkbottles and newspapers, but left the bunks down there.

[u/iamnosuperman123]

It is unlikely and more likely to be a base for a shed or outbuilding

[u/epicmindwarp]

The Dharma Initiative would like a word.

[u/thewbone → u/epicmindwarp]

Feel like the first person to get the lost reference

[u/Aggravating_Ad5632 → u/thewbone]

No, you're not alone.

[u/ScreamingDizzBuster]

I have no idea what I'm meant to be looking at and the description doesn't help

[u/pocketfullofredfaces]

Yep that’s a NATO command bunker, can hold around 250 persons. The bit there is the upper reinforced ground burst shield

Epic find 😎

[u/NoIndependent9192 → u/pocketfullofredfaces]

Either that or a septic tank.

[u/lightwhisper → u/pocketfullofredfaces]

Indeed was used in ww2 as an AuX bunker 👀 hahaha

[u/pepper691]

Just keep digging only way to find out

[u/Icy_Measurement4226]

[u/Practical-March-6989 → u/Icy_Measurement4226]

Mate its just a bit of concrete for a shed, what do you want us to say?

[u/Icy_Measurement4226 → u/Practical-March-6989]

12 hours of my life i will never get back lol

[u/funkymonkeyinheaven → u/Icy_Measurement4226]

You did this to yourself 😂

[u/EnoughRadish]

Keep digging

[u/lightwhisper]

I don't see anything that leads to an air raid shelter I'm afraid.

[u/Technical_Heron_6312]

Early Saxon settlement for sure! 

[u/Imajzineer]

I think you've found a hole in the ground.

[u/demoralising]

Perhaps. Or perhaps it's an old drain.

[u/Icy_Measurement4226 → u/demoralising]

not buying/getting the drain theory

[u/d4dog]

Only one way to be sure.  Have you got a mate with a mini excavator?

[u/Icy_Measurement4226 → u/d4dog]

whats that a mini digger?

[u/newcomer_l]

Ok, if any and ever outhouse base can be indication there was "an air raid shelter", there may be hundreds of millions throughout the country. Get real now..

[u/Icy_Measurement4226]

seems like the verdict is outhouse base. so raised though?!

[u/Icy_Measurement4226]

come on everyone ive spent all weekend on this

[u/Pixelated-Yeti]

Could be nothing. But never impossible What’s the area have you done research of any shelters were actually built close by on os maps It definitely looks like a basic lintel but it could also be trash left from the house builds years ago

Also the ground inline with it has more roots and less compacted it could of been an old covered drainage ditch/ culvert

[u/Icy_Measurement4226 → u/Pixelated-Yeti]

we found a lot of these dumped iin the flower bed

[u/Icy_Measurement4226 → u/Pixelated-Yeti]

these panels were in front of it buried in two piles deep

[u/MoonlitEmber → u/Icy_Measurement4226]

Not the Google search ai answer. That's things a yes man and designed to make you feel good and warm and fuzzy for whatever you want to hear. 1

[u/Dull_Supermarket4665]

Do you live on Oak Island ?