churchyard

He was told locals of an ancient village near Chepstow had awoken to find more than 50 holes mysteriously dug among the gravestones of their churchyard.

Stones stolen from a 19th Century churchyard are expected to cost more than £20,000 to repair.

The Jackal's forgery of a British passport, using the name of a dead child taken from a churchyard, was perfectly feasible in the days before electronic databases and cross-checking.

Others can be found in places as diverse as housing estates, urban parks, village greens and churchyards.

A low mound near the churchyard was rumoured by folklore to have contained a giant skeleton, perhaps even Ivar himself.