That cracked me up! Why shouldn't it be a badger?

U.K. Has been "culling" badgers the last few years.

I think a team from William & Mary found a casket handle in ground hog burrow refuse on the surface in the woods during the initial survey for a waste treatment plant. We went back the next year, and identified over 50 burials after we cut down the trees and pulled back the topsoil with a back hoe. We identified European, Black (slave), and Native American interments based on the shapes of the grave shafts.

During the Civil War many county and local governments sent their records and documents to Richmond for safekeeping, which turned out to be ill advised, what with the sacking and burning and whatnot. This cemetery had dropped off the written record, and when the nearby plantation house burned down, been completely forgotten. We surmised that the first settlers had reutilized a local native burial ground and used it for their family and slaves as well. There is no native stone in the area and all the markers were wooden, apparently.