<html><body><span style="display:block;" class="xfm_98006340"><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;line-height:14pt;">Beavers have dense tooth enamel, but softer dentin. Because of this, when a beaver gnaws wood, the teeth sharpen themselves. Beavers' teeth grow throughout their lives and it is very important to grind them down. And the tooth enamel always shines</span></div>
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<div><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">10 июня 2025, 22:14:28, От "Nathalie Buttimore" <</span><a href="mailto:natbuttimore@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;">natbuttimore@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;">>:</span></span></i></div>
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<div>Thanks Christian,</div>
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<div>That’s great to have confirmed. Is it normal for beaver teeth to have the front side so much shiner than the rest of the tooth? Is it just that the enamel is worn on the underside?</div>
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<div>It's definitely a beaver tooth, a lower incisor. The "proximal" end seems to have been cut and worn, I agree. The step-like surface of the "distal" end, however, seems natural. This is uncommon to me, from my North American perspective.</div>
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</tr></tbody></table><br/><div>Ps it certainly looks like a beaver tooth. <br/><div>Sent from my iPhone</div>
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<div>Prof Terry O’Connor says the root end is cut and worn - not a natural break.
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<div>Hia..is this definately a tooth? It looks from the pictures that it could be a segment of jet or lignite armring.. examples are known from Viking graves in Scotland for sure, maybe there are Roman examples too.
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<div>On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, 17:58 Nathalie Buttimore, <<a href="mailto:natbuttimore@gmail.com" target="_blank">natbuttimore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="font-size-adjust:none;"><span style="font-size:18.25px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Not a bone object but a tooth, which I hope is ok. </span></div>
<div style="font-size-adjust:none;"><span style="font-size:18.25px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On Sunday I found what I’m pretty sure is a beaver tooth while mudlarking on the Thames foreshore at Putney, an area which can bring up prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon finds. The tooth, having
been in the Thames mud for a few centuries at least, is completely darkened. The front side of the tooth is very shiny and solid looking, whilst the back looks much more fragile and has a crack. The root end looks like it might have been purposely cut though
it might be possible that it’s just a very clean break. Obviously I would love for it to have been purposely worked and used as a tool or an amulet but having no other examples to compare it with I have no idea how likely that is.</span></div>
<div style="font-size-adjust:none;"><span style="font-size:18.25px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Another concern I have is preservation. The boar tusks that are found on the foreshore disintegrate rapidly after emerging from the mud and I would really not like for that to happen to this
tooth. Teeth generally survive well but I don’t know of any other beaver teeth finds and it does have a crack.</span></div>
<div style="font-size-adjust:none;"><span style="font-size:18.25px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Is there any advice or information anyone could give me about preservation and finding out if it has any signs of having been used as a tool?</span></div>
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