A Floor of Bones

Near where I grew up in Devon is a wonderful old National Trust house called Killerton. And in the grounds of this house is the Bear Hut - an old summerhouse tucked away among the trees. It is wonderfully rustic, wood and thatch and a ceiling of fir cones. It is called The Bear Hut because in the 1860's it was used to house a black bear brought back by one of the family from Canada. But one of the strangest things about this hut is this section of the floor. It is made up entirely o...