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I agree with this approach. Car manufacturers don't want their products flying off the road and therefore we can presume they tell us which tyre keeps our car (and all its integrated systems) functioning optimally. Whether or not a plug is a good idea depends entirely on how you use the car...

Thank you to everyone who has suggested anything... but we have a winner. Mark B's first reply asking if it was a piece of scaffold. I was unlucky to find the foot long section of concrete around the pipe... a few inches in one direction I would have exposed one end of the pipe... a few feet...

Apologies not needed at all. I am thoroughly enjoying the stories coming in.

Ah hah.. using a screwdriver tap on the pipe I heard a lead-like-thud rather than an iron-like-ting, and same screwdriver scrape on the side made it all silvery and shiny. Also, I think I can see an angled run down and away from the old building so more and more it feels like it could be a...

The more people reply here the more I realise how much I love modern building regs and conventions. It seems if you're you're going to dig anything you are lucky to find no evidence of ancestral shenanigans. If the rain holds today I will unravel another layer to solve or deepen the mystery.

Thanks for the reply. Quite positive there is nothing in this pipe. I didn't want to dig up anymore if it was meant to be left alone. But will proceed to investigate further.

Thanks for the replies. Is there something I am supposed to do in this situation, beyond notify the council? I would hate to remove it, build on top and then find out I should never have touched it and my neighbours are now without dial-up internet or whatever was in that pipe previously.

That's my gut feeling too.

Thanks Mark. That feels unlikely. The concrete around the pipe looks deliberate eg: the quality and finish is much better than the mess around it.

Shame this has to be my first post... So I am in the process of clearing an area in the back garden that will be the site of my future man cave. The area is littered with building rubble left by previous, previous owners - think bricks, broken slab, concrete blobs of bricks and rubble. The area...