<div dir="auto">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.<div dir="auto">Good luck,Colleen Batey</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, 17:58 Nathalie Buttimore, <<a href="mailto:natbuttimore@gmail.com">natbuttimore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px">Hi all,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px">Not a bone object but a tooth, which I hope is ok. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px">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></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px">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></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px">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></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px">Attached are photos of the tooth. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:23.6px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px">Thanks,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:18.25px">Nat </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18.2px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-a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