Claw, Horn, Bone?

[dbrake40]

Posting from Facebook. Found on the Thames estuary in London

 

Edited January 23, 2022 by dbrake40
Updated description

[Mahnmut]

Hi,

looks like a tooth to me, similar to Hippo, but smaller than todays species. May be from a capital hog also?

Best Regards,J

[Fossildude19]

Pig/boar tusk was my first impression.

[dbrake40]

2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Pig/boar tusk was my first impression.

I guess I've never seen one broken off close to the tip. The thickness of the bone throws me off and it also looks mineralized to me. Could be.

Edited January 23, 2022 by dbrake40

[dbrake40]

@Harry Pristis @Shellseeker Any ideas other than hog. It looks mineralized to me...

[Harry Pristis]

I don't have a pig lower canine to compare, but I think it's the best guess.

 

 

 

 

[Shellseeker]

3 hours ago, dbrake40 said:

@Harry Pristis @Shellseeker Any ideas other than hog. It looks mineralized to me...

I am actually confused by this fossil ... Do you think it is a canine or a tusk ?

Have you compared to a Sus scrofa canine or tusk photo from the Internet?

I have Peccary tusks,  but as Harry says... peccaries are not pigs..  and have  tusks with longitudinal groves... like this...

 

Your's is different... horizontal groves...

 

I do not recognize it...

But then I hunt Florida, it comes from UK....

If you want to know what it is bad enough , do what I do... 

1st,   decide whether you are going to treat it as Canine or Tusk... Then exhaustively search the internet for every photo of proposed ID off the Internet... So "Sus Scrofa lower tusk"  as an example...

Then come back and state that it is not or it is, based on these differentiators (horizontal banding on the enamel, shape/curve of the tusk,  etc, etc

 

Might take a long time, but most of the time that works for  me. Let us know if you figure it out .   Jack

 

[dbrake40]

On 1/25/2022 at 8:36 PM, Shellseeker said:

I am actually confused by this fossil ... Do you think it is a canine or a tusk ?

Have you compared to a Sus scrofa canine or tusk photo from the Internet?

I have Peccary tusks,  but as Harry says... peccaries are not pigs..  and have  tusks with longitudinal groves... like this...

 

Your's is different... horizontal groves...

 

I do not recognize it...

But then I hunt Florida, it comes from UK....

If you want to know what it is bad enough , do what I do... 

1st,   decide whether you are going to treat it as Canine or Tusk... Then exhaustively search the internet for every photo of proposed ID off the Internet... So "Sus Scrofa lower tusk"  as an example...

Then come back and state that it is not or it is, based on these differentiators (horizontal banding on the enamel, shape/curve of the tusk,  etc, etc

 

Might take a long time, but most of the time that works for  me. Let us know if you figure it out .   Jack

 

After some further digging I am starting to think this is the broken off tip of hog tusk. I've seen the flat triangular-shaped surface , from my very first photo, in other photos online. Thanks for responding to my tag. And thanks for all the contributions you have made on this site.

Edited February 5, 2022 by dbrake40