© Spurensucher - 04.04.2021

Not found every day: Petrified bone

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Today's find: Fossil bone? The thing certainly doesn't look like a broken-off piece of a plaster figure. At least I couldn't find any fractures on it.

 

I also doubt the theory of a "recent bone", which would basically suggest that it is still a flawless bone.

 

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The piece is only 8 cm wide and weighs just under 150 g after all. Completely solid, apparently not hollow either. But otherwise it has all the characteristics of a vertebra or similar bone. Very fine-pored in some places and the finest fissures are visible. 

 

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But the thing is not porous at all. The mineral freaks in the forums tend to reject such sightings and finds, as it seems there. With similar finds they claim: "Whether it is fossilised - which I don't believe - you can easily try it out. If you have a small fretsaw or a file (a nail file will do) at home, try sawing or filing the bone. If you can see a removal of material, it is a recent bone and not a fossilisation."
Well, I used a nail file and nothing came off. OK, maybe I'll try a harder file. But I'm sticking to my guns: the thing is hard as a rock (and therefore a stone).

 

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Interesting find, excavated from the edge of a forest near Myhl.

 

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