39TDS Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 Could any of you knowledgeable folk identify this bone for me. It's in a terrible state having just come out of some peat I was digging in. It is a shoulder blade off something but would just be interested to know what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 A larger mammal but nothing as big as a cow or a horse. Deer probably. Or maybe there's been a murder ☠️👻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted May 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Benthejockey said: A larger mammal but nothing as big as a cow or a horse. Deer probably. Or maybe there's been a murder ☠️👻 Thank you for the reply, my thought was probably deer but I wouldn't know the difference between deer or cow or even boar for that matter. Digging a new pond out and it was in a layer of peat that was covered by sand and clay and soil layers. You can find twigs, tree trunks, intact hazel nuts and things in there but first time I have seen a bone of any sort. There must have been a lot of water flowing to have covered the peat with 3-4' of sand so I think most likely melting ice from last ice age. I have farmed the land for nearly 50 years and seen some flooding in that time but the amount of water needed to wash that much sand would be incredible. Can only be melt water imo. Just fascinating to think how many thousands of years old the bone would be. Edited May 7, 2020 by 39TDS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmaxphil Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) Get in touch with the local archeological society they might be interested also you might get your pond dug for free 😉 Edited May 7, 2020 by vmaxphil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 1 hour ago, vmaxphil said: Get in touch with the local archeological society they might be interested also you might get your pond dug for free 😉 Good idea. A bit like the bank robber who phoned his elderly dad from prison in the springtime to tell him he'd buried all his ill gotten gains in his veg patch, having listened to the recording from prison the police went and duly dug over the veg patch just in time for spring planting 😉 @39TDS Maybe it's a dinosaur 🦕 a little one 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbel Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 I was told by a person living next door to a cemetery that he sometimes digs up human bones in his garden next to the grave yard, I asked him how he knew if human, he says he was told if they turned black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted May 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 I don't own the field any more so not my place to call the archaeologists. I am all for preserving history but in this case it is just nature stuff rather than ancient people stuff. Having said that, two fields away I found a collection of worked flints. Maybe 15-20 flints as if someone had sat there all day knapping flints. The plough had brought them up so nowhere near as deep as this bone. I did tell the archaeologists about the flints but they couldn't have been any less interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 Looks to me like a very old palmated antler...piece of....to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 5 hours ago, Benthejockey said: Good idea. A bit like the bank robber who phoned his elderly dad from prison in the springtime to tell him he'd buried all his ill gotten gains in his veg patch, having listened to the recording from prison the police went and duly dug over the veg patch just in time for spring planting 😉 @39TDS Maybe it's a dinosaur 🦕 a little one 😂 That's actually true. It happened in the village where I live maybe thirty or more years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 I dunno, but Identifying where on the skeleton the bone came from maybe be useful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted May 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 5 hours ago, Walker570 said: Looks to me like a very old palmated antler...piece of....to me. Hadn't thought of that, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatureBoy Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 Great interesting find! Same with flints. Hard to tell from pics, if you are going to keep it be careful drying it. Air dry slow. It may decay rapidly now exposed as looks in poor condition. Coat of PVA will seal and protect it once dried out. If you take it anywhere for ID get a receipt if leaving it. Boffins "lost" some of my finds in past. NB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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