Weird bone fragment

Alkapton

Alkapton

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Found about 250m inside a cave.  It is about 5 or 6 cm long.  It looks like it should be the top of a skull and maybe you see part of eye socket.  But inside the fragment is a weird herring bone structure

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Anyone got any idea what part of what animal I found?
 
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Fulk

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Very interesting . . . I'm not a bone expert and I see what you mean about an eye-socket; but I wonder if it is more likely to be part of the pelvic girdle of some animal, the 'herring bones' being vestigial ribs?
 
Alkapton

Alkapton

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I have also thought pelvis but, that don't seem right either.  It was a surprisingly long way inside, at a place that cavers would not have disturbed much or at all.  So it could be old.
 
graham

graham

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Almost definitely pelvis of some beastie or another. The 'herring bone' things are the transverse processes (probably) of fused sacral vertebrae.
 
Ship-badger

Ship-badger

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As others have said, this is almost certainly the Synsacrum (pelvis) of a chicken. Taken in by a fox or badger probably; though it might have been a caver.
 
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Fulk

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When I saw that rhychydwr1 had posted something in this thread, I thought that he was going to offer you a fiver for it.
 
graham

graham

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Fulk said:
When I saw that rhychydwr1 had posted something in this thread, I thought that he was going to offer you a fiver for it.
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Not the sort of thing he can photocopy & sell on  :coffee:
 
bograt

bograt

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Revived this thread 'cos I have just dismantled half a dozen chickens (snowed in - cabin fever  :cry:) It is definitely the pelvic bone, the ones I have just done were three month old table birds, the equivalent measurement is 10 to 12cm and the bones I have do not look as mature as these.
We are looking at an older, smaller bird, maybe a Pheasant?.
If I am bored tomorrow I might post a couple of pic's for comparison.
 
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