Researchers discovered a carefully cut grave in the soil after a three-week archaeological dig in the English Channel took an odd and unfathomable turn. The contents of the grave were definitely not human.

The ancient remains of a medieval porpoise buried in the earth were discovered in September 2017 on the small island of Chapelle Dom Hue off the coast of Guernsey. Scientists are unable to determine the significance of this enigmatic animal tomb.

According to archaeologist Philip de Jersey of Oxford University in the United Kingdom, “I don’t know what to make of it.”

“Why bother burying a porpoise in what looks like a grave?” one might ask.

The secret is all the more prominent because of how the creature was covered, which doesn’t propose the dead porpoise was basically discarded underground.

Instead, the careful digging of the grave itself suggests that it was intended as a solemn resting place, and the alignment of the body from east to west in accordance with Christian tradition suggests that it has been laid to rest.

Thus, de Jersey expected to track down the remaining parts of a middle age priest in the burial place, as the island is remembered to have been a strict retreat for priests looking for shelter.

However, the researchers discovered the juvenile porpoise’s skull, which they believe has been interred alongside the graves of other monks since the 14th century, after noticing changes in the soil that suggested the existence of a grave beneath.

Due to the fact that these mammals were consumed in medieval times, it’s possible that the porpoise was killed for food.

However, the researchers contend that if that were the case, it would have made much more sense for people to dispose of the remains in the sea, which is just 10 meters away from the site and surrounds the small island on all sides with water.

De Jersey stated to the Guernsey Press, “Based on the shape, we would think it was a grave cut if we were in a church and found something like this.”

“What baffles me is that. Why bother burying it if they had eaten it or killed it for the feces?

According to de Jersey, one possibility is that the animal was killed for food and carefully stored until needed, but the preserved remains were never used.

“It might have been stuffed in salt and afterward for reasons unknown they didn’t return to it,” he told The Guardian.

The porpoise bones will now be examined by a marine expert following their removal from their resting place following their discovery.

Once that analysis is finished, we might learn more about how and why this medieval porpoise was buried in a monk’s graveyard.

De Jersey, on the other hand, claims that it is a true riddle for all time and the strangest discovery he has made in his 35 years as a scientist.

He stated, “The dolphin has a strong Christian significance, but I’ve never seen anything like this before.”

“It’s the slightly wacky kind of thing that might have happened in the Iron Age but not in the Middle Ages,”