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Posted: **Sun May 08, 2005 1:37 pm**

Any idea on this? Benny & I found this plowing up a garden spot for my Mom today. They live on the south end of Beaver Dam on a rise. Definately not a tusk, well preserved on 1 side some age cracking on other 2 sides. we thinks a bear claw :?:

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2005 5:19 pm**

kewl find... looks atleast 9000 yrs old "WingMan"

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2005 8:22 pm**

Cool find! It looks like a claw. Very good condition too. Most bone type materials don't age that well. Bone gets very calky and crumbles. It could have been a pendant. I don't see any holes drilled in it but maybe the knuckle end was broken off? The ancients often wore claws/teeth around their neck.

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 7:29 am**

it looks kinda like a summer tooth

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 8:30 am**

yeah, summer here..............summer over there....gator

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 10:52 am**

it's a chicken toe.. most likely to be from 1000's of years ago

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 10:56 am**

looks like a claw, but i don't know about a grizzley? anyone herd of them wild around here?

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 11:07 am**

i'm lookin at a quarter right here, i'm wondering if hte pictures maybe are making us think the claw is bigger than it really is.... Never seen a grizzly claw up close though, other than a few mounted ones, i would say it's probably close to the right size.

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 11:45 am**

the quarter was put there to reference the size of the claw. A quarter is 1" in diameter (.955). as you can see 2 quarters could be placed inside the arch of the claw (it measured 2"), while the outside leading edge of the claw measured 3". i may be wrong but it appears the claw is broken off below the "knuckle" of the claw basically meaning this would be the part that "stuck out". when you think about it like that and have it in your hand, it's a big booty claw

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 3:48 pm**

nice find... :shock:

the two of you working in the field :shock:

together

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 3:58 pm**

huntergrnchevy wrote:nice find... the two of you working in the field together

Maybe thats why Ben kept asking where you were at.........hmmmmm I seem to remember some pictures...... :roll:

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 3:59 pm**

From the location you described, is it a possiblity it is a talon from a Bald Eagle?

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 4:09 pm**

tunica du4u wrote:
huntergrnchevy wrote:nice find... the two of you working in the field together

Maybe thats why Ben kept asking where you were at.........hmmmmm I seem to remember some pictures......

Must be talking about the rabbit hunt

I recall Mr. John Wayne Benny boy couldn't hit a coke can 20 feet away :lol:

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 4:09 pm**

one helluva eagle if it was

naw bald eagle talons or at least everyone i have seen are black. It's definately a claw

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 4:13 pm**

huntergrnchevy wrote:
tunica du4u wrote:
huntergrnchevy wrote:nice find... the two of you working in the field together

Maybe thats why Ben kept asking where you were at.........hmmmmm I seem to remember some pictures......

Must be talking about the rabbit hunt I recall Mr. John Wayne Benny boy couldn't hit a coke can 20 feet away

dat's what I'm talkin bout

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