Is this a fossil bone?

[CHalifax]

Hello I was wondering if anyone could identify this fragment, which I think might be a fragment of bone, but am unsure. I don't have a lot of knowledge when it comes to identifying Pleistocene fossils.

 

 

[Fossildude19]

Sure looks like a bone fragment to me.  

 

[digit]

+1 Yup, sure has all the looks of a bone fragment to me as well.

 

Was this a personal find or did you get this from someone else? Some information on where it came from might help to pin down a geological age possible suspects for an ID. No real diagnostic features on this bone so there will be no way of assigning a specific ID in this case.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[CHalifax]

Thank you for your replies! Yes this was a personal find which I found yesterday, I found this piece along the north Norfolk coast in Happisburgh in the United kingdom. The area is composed of cliffs that contain glacial deposits containing erratics from the Mesozoic period mainly I think, with the Cromer forest bed being occasionally exposed on the foreshore containing fossilised mammal bones e.g. mammoth, deer, and was a early human settlement around 850 000 years ago with footprints sometimes present in the sediment. The beds are the Happisburgh Till member and the How Hill member. I believe the How Hill member is Pleistocene in age and the Cromer forest bed and the Wroxham Crag formation are part of it.

 

Thanks 

 

Conor.

[digit]

Great info. Don't know that we'll be able to put a name to your fragment but it sounds like you have a nice place to wander and see what other treasures you can spot.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[CHalifax]

Thank you, I forgot to mention I found in on the foreshore. Definitely! The whole of the Norfolk coast have lovely places to find fossils of this kind.

 

Thank you for your help

 

Conor.

[RJB]

+3 for bone

 

RB

[CHalifax]

Thanks for the help 

 

Conor.

[LiamL]

Nice Bone find!

[LordTrilobite]

Definitely a bone fragment. But too worn to proper identify beyond that.

[CHalifax]

Thank you for the confirmation and help everyone! 

 

Conor