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!

 

[hikermike]

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

Nice digs!!! Love the silver almost as much as the jawbone!! Looks like the jawbone of my first wife.... Keep up the killer finds!! H.H.

 

[E59]

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

NIce finds! I found a porcelain doll head like yours at an old homesite, along with a teeny toilet . My family raises hogs, that's definately a rodent jaw, maybe a groundhog or whatever that javelina thing might be. Nothing to be concerned about. Happy hunting! Sara

 

[Leon]

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

Nice finds!,,, love the doll...
No clue on the Jaw bone, but I sure wouldn't want to get what ever it was in a cornner...

 

[1320]

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

I appreciate the effort with the jawbone ID. Hard to tell by looking at the photo but the inside tip of the big tooth/tusk has an acute but smooth angle. This critter must have been eating wood or rock to shape the tooth like that. There were some other bones along with it, all were small....I'm still researching....

 

[1320]

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

Got it....baby Beaver....found a pic on the Copernic search engine.....ain't skeered now!

 

[MDnoob]

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

It must be a groundhog or similar rodent then. I just know that I have seen many like that around, and we have plenty of groundhogs and possum here. I guess possums have jaws similar to canines, even though they are marsupials...form fits function...they have a similar diet to dogs and whatnot. Interesting that a rodent would have such massive teeth...

 

[BADDOG]

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

Could it be a muskrat??

http://www.visualsunlimited.com/browse/vu125/vu125077.html

The beaver skull at this site looks like the teeth are flat

http://www.visualsunlimited.com/browse/vu125/dirpage.html

Great finds

HH Baddog1

 

[bigrig40]

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

it what my first ex wifes would look like if she was gone! man she was mean!!

bigrig

 

[Monty]

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

Squirrel jawbone.

 

[1320]

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

From now on, I'm digging on my back