JdeBPGosh! This was 2024.
To show that history rhymes: The place where these beehives stood became the site of a new modern (waterproof!) shed, replacing three cleared and demolished ones. In late 2024 and 2025, it filled with some inherited stuff from another relative.
So in 2026, I'm back to clearing exactly the same volume of space (indeed, a somewhat larger enclosing volume) of a whole new set of stuff.
Very little of it is mouldy and rotten this time around, though.
Although the his and hers boxes of teeth were somewhat unsettling.