White Fibres under soil

Good afternoon,

A quick question. At the bottom of the garden there were old paving slabs which we took up on Monday which had red sand underneath and soil underneath it.

Upon doing a bit of digging today, I have found a few white fibres in the soil a bit deeper down. I did spray some Jeyes fluid in the area a few weeks before to kill off moss.


Apologies for the terrible photo, but the fibres are a brilliant white, rather than anything that looks like old roots.

I am assuming these fibres are unlikely to be fungus, as they are quite deep, and as far as we know, no one has moved those slabs for years.

Any thoughts? Anything unpleasant (the dreaded asbestos comes to mind when you think of white fibres, but I can't see why there would be the odd fibre of that here and there in the soil)? There does appear to be some concrete further down (presumably as it is not far from a stone wall and appears to be part of the base of it).

Hopefully someone can tell me to stop worrying!

 

Probably fungus, it can travel a long way under ground searching for rotting vegetation.

 

Agree with pete re fungus. Id found it in my garden also.

 

Asbestos fibres are so tiny that white blood cells can eat them whole (and that's where problems start).