FunkyMonkey Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Hi all, I’m completely stumped by this. I found this on the foreshore of Holland on Sea, Essex near Clacton on Sea. The area is associated with London Clay deposits which usually throw out striatolamia and Otodus teeth. There is also Red Crag which throws out bivalves. Then again there are glacial deposits that have thrown out mammoth remains. Later still there is the Clacton spear and Clactonian assemblage of tools claimed to be evidence of the first hominid in the UK. So what is this? It has the “feel” of stone / pebble. It doesn’t “feel” or “look” recent but of course that means nothing. I’ve seen nothing like this from this area before although it resembles a herbivore tooth I have seen before so please.....help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JohnBrewer Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 @DE&i @Harry Pristis might know amongst other knowledgable members. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Looks equuid (or equuoid if that’s a thing). It looks like a fossil too. Interested what those more familiar with the deposits say “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyMonkey Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 Thank you both. Ive found plenty of sharks teeth, one fish vertebrae, whale bones but this is a stand out for me. Cant wait to find out what it might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Yes, a horse's tooth, i feel certain. Possibly from those Pleistocene glacial deposits you mentioned. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 It's a horse lower cheek tooth. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyMonkey Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 Thanks all for the ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crann Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I knew that was a horse tooth straight away, you forget how much knowledge you build up when you have a hobby like this, valuable too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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