Sundays finds....tell me about the jawbone please!

[1320]

Sunday's finds....tell me about the jawbone please!

Hit a mid 1800's homesite yesterday. This is my first complete porcelain doll!

Can anyone tell me about the critter that may have owned these teeth? For what it's worth, there was a Wheatie under it!

 

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[jeff of pa]

Re: Sunday's finds....tell me about the jawbone please!

just a guess, pig ?
by the way, cool finds

 

[Newbie1967]

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My six year old says "It must be from a dinosaur head"

 

[williefire]

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That is a boar jawbone with a nice tusk.....

 

[omnicognic]

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Yup, tusker boar! 8)

 

[stoney56]

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Looks like you went hog wild(pun intended). Just curious, does that clear marble have anything in it or is it just the light?

 

[1320]

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Clear marble has a hint of white swirl in it.....thanks for the jawbone ID, never knew my area had wild hogs!

 

[stoney56]

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Ok. 1st thought was a sulfide marble. HH

 

[scavenger]

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well comparing it to the size of the toy car, it looks to be a length of 4" at the most, This type of jaw bone this size was owned by either a beaver, muskrat, or similar rodent toothed type mamals. an actual length of the whole jaw including tooth and a measurement of how far the tooth extendeds past the bone would be helpful as I could more closely identify it.
Laters and HH
Scav.

 

[omnicognic]

Re: Sunday's finds....tell me about the jawbone please!

upon closer review scavenger makes a very good point! where are you? could it be a javelina? maybe a nutria or beaver?

 

[OnionRings]

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1320, nice finds! The WTF item looks like a giant rat jaw bone! Do you live in New York? I heard they get to be as big as small dogs there! LOL!
The bone looks new I think I would carry a gun the next time you go back there!heheheheheh!

Onion

 

[lonewolfe]

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Cool finds!

Jaw bone kinda scary!

Post more finds from there!

HH

Lonewolfe

 

[nitro]

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Nice digs 1320. The jaw is the lower jaw of a Javelina. Happy Hunting. Joe

 

[MDnoob]

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Pretty sure that's a possum jawbone.

Wild boar used to live pretty much everywhere, till they got hunted out.

 

[EDDE]

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id say wood chuck/ground hog

 

[Colorado2]

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Hey 1320. Wild watch band. I can't remeber where you're from, but do you have Prarie Dogs there? Identical to their jaw bones. I have piles of them on my land....Little *#@%~$tards! He must have had a filling for you to find it with your MD. ~CO2

 

[scavenger]

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MDnoob,
couldnt a be a possum jawbone, possums are canines just leik dogs, racoons, or coyotes. the jaw bone he is showing us has a longer front tooth then has smaller molars behind for grinding. could be a groundhog, there are pretty good ammounts of them in kentucky so I am told, wouldn't be a prarie dog,don't think they have those in kentucky. some partsof kentucky have boar but not javelina the jaw looks too small for a pig though. . most common depending upon size would be beaver, muskrat, groundhog/woodchuck, looks too big for rat and too small for pig.just stating my opinions and experience, as I have cleaned many an animal and know most of thier bone structures

 

[minelabex1000]

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Very nice group! Thanks for sharing

 

[Darod]

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Hey,....isn't that the jaw of Preditor that Arnold faught?

Rod

 

[spotz]

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Yep! Saber Tooth Gopher!! For sure! Probably died from lack of oxygen caused by a certain rail passing
1320 feet over the local Gopher hole at about 140 + ! Spotz