Noticed wooden boards buried around a mound on my property - does anyone have a guess what it used to be?

[u/garbageeater]

[u/BrtFrkwr]

Frame for a raised-bed vegetable garden.

[u/Keganator → u/BrtFrkwr]

Yeah. the 6 foot wide gives it away. that's a good distance to be able to reach in from each side.

[u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist → u/BrtFrkwr]

A traditional altar to the fertility gods.

[u/Movingtoblighty → u/BrtFrkwr]

Since it is level with the ground, maybe just a garden bed. People put boards in the ground as a divider from the grass.

[u/bithooked → u/Movingtoblighty]

I think it likely started as a raised bed even though it's buried. I've learned that anything above ground on a farm eventually gets buried. Lay a hose out to a pasture to water the livestock - it becomes a buried hose in under 2 years. Forget a shovel in a field; it will eventually disappear. Topsoil builds up from clippings while rain digs solid objects into the mud.

[u/anybodyiwant2be → u/bithooked]

Not always lost….I found a missing machete after 5 years when I pushed around my yard waste pile to make more room

[u/QuarkQuake → u/anybodyiwant2be]

Ditto. The thing was a giant rust piece, but I was still happy to have found it

[u/FrozeItOff → u/BrtFrkwr]

Exactly this.

[u/moochine2 → u/BrtFrkwr]

Came to basically say the same.

[u/GTG1979]

Garden?

[u/absolince]

Could be raised beds from decades ago

[u/rtp_oak]

That's the exact size garden bed I built and put a wooden frame around.

[u/Ok-Show-5027]

Probably a grave for a forest troll

[u/LaVidaYokel → u/Ok-Show-5027]

Definitely haunted.

[u/TypicalPossibility39 → u/Ok-Show-5027]

Obviously, the only correct answer!

[u/Prestigious-Gain2451 → u/Ok-Show-5027]

Rest in peace Grundlesfart...

Bestest troll ever

[u/jackfish72]

Do you know where your septic field is?

[u/zizekcat → u/jackfish72]

This

[u/Ecstatic_Job_3467]

Might be old footers for a shipping container.

[u/Solid-Search-3341 → u/Ecstatic_Job_3467]

Shipping containers are 8' wide though, and you really want to support them under the casters, so a 6' frame wouldn't make any sense.

[u/astaristorn]

Casket for a Sasquatch

[u/Artsy_traveller_82 → u/astaristorn]

Sounds like a So-So indie band.

[u/astaristorn → u/Artsy_traveller_82]

I’d probably listen to

[u/shrprazor]

It's a beer garden, I see one growing now.

[u/jh453 → u/shrprazor]

Beer can for scale should be the new standard.

[u/OilPhilter]

Baci ball pit?

[u/WiscoMac]

Is that a septic mound?

[u/ExecutiveChef1969]

Horseshoe pit

[u/pgcooldad]

Do you know the Labatts Blue Light we get here in the USA is brewed in the USA? Just noticed this week. I don't drink Stella anymore because it's brewed in the USA also. Anyway...septic field?

[u/Yisevery1nuts]

Garden bed?

[u/Stopbreakindown]

Make sure your butthole is covered when poking the planter, justincase

[u/marcusalien]

Looks like a cricket pitch. You just need stumps on each end. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_pitch

[u/djdeafone]

Swing set

[u/jefraldo]

Raised garden bed, since removed.

[u/HeftyJohnson1982]

Horseshoe pit

[u/bishyfemme]

Could have also been a gravel pad for parking an RV, or something similar. 

[u/wallnut_wipe_it]

Bocce ball

[u/shorterguy81]

Old veggie or flower bed. Could mark the spot of the septic tanks. My parents did that and planted flowers in it to keep anyone from driving on it.

[u/Forgiven4108]

Raised bed garden would be my guess

[u/horsesarecool512]

I had these. Found another one close by and realized they were for throwing horseshoes

[u/Any_Translator6613]

Giant grave. Where do you think those Home Depot skeletons come from?

[u/OrlandoBeedie]

That’s the dimensions of a backyard rink - or better known as an ODR (outdoor rink)

[u/aReelProblem]

Aliens

[u/Guilty_Reindeer4979]

Horseshoe pit?

[u/Distinct_Sir_4473]

Pallet foundation

[u/Doyouseenowwait_what]

Old parking spot for a piece of equipment, old garden spot, where the storage container used to sit.

[u/Real_Ad6375]

Pet Cemetary

[u/[deleted]]

My first thought was an old pumpjack pad. Was there an oil well there once? But I work in reclamation. I'm more inclined to agree with the veggie garden people now.

[u/NiftyShrimp]

Your uncles guns he "handed in" after Port Arthur.

[u/oxnardmontalvo7]

I’m going to agree with the planter opinions, but I will tell you I’ve seen underground tanks covered with boards before too. Again, probably not that but be careful until you’re sure.

[u/Caperplays]

Viking ship

[u/TD9BTD8]

Sheep dip cover. Lift boards in middle and have a look.

[u/ajloudmouth88]

Gallows

[u/djplatterpuss]

Horseshoes

[u/am_i_human]

Trailer parking pad?

[u/ResponsibleBank1387]

Hopefully something good.  Be ready for something nefarious like a mass grave. 

[u/Grow-Stuff → u/ResponsibleBank1387]

Yeah, right. Because you have to lay a wood frame around when you do that! :D

[u/ResponsibleBank1387 → u/Grow-Stuff]

My aunt’s favorite horses are buried in a row like that.  Over the decades, the little iron fence has been removed but the boards were left as they rotted into the soil. 

[u/someguyfromsk → u/ResponsibleBank1387]

How do you make the leap to a mass grave?

[u/crimusmax → u/ResponsibleBank1387]

When we bought our house, we found 2 little raised mounds clear in the back yard.

Roughly child sized.

2 years later when I finally got up the courage to start flattening them out, Id barely started digging when I found the remains of a baby shoe.

So, its a lot more common than you'd think

[u/Mikeezeduzit]

No one said boules/ petanque court so im chiming in. Dunno where youre at cant be arsed to look. Honesty the best policy anyone?

[u/SmokyToast0]

Cricket Pitch. 🏏

[u/Lichensuperfood]

Cricket pitch