I actually found this earlier this summer while artifact hunting in one of our local creeks, I had a couple Kansas State Archeologist's verify it, Its a tooth from a Mastodon, It was laying upside down on a wet sandbar with just the roots sticking up, i just thought it was a bone but i picked it up and looked at it for the fun of it and i was shocked, the teeth segments are really shiny still, very suprised that the roots were still in as good as shape as they were being in a creek and rolling around with all the rocks, They figured it hadnt been in the creek too long and must have washed out of the bank not too far upstream, I plan to do a bunch more looking in that area as soon as spring arrives, Just thought i would share this with everyone, This is my first post, i have always looked through the threads here and love what i see, I just started metal detecting last summer and still have a lot to learn. thanks for a great learning sight, Good luck everyone, Sam
thanks guys, i will take some better pics with the digital camera, this picture is actually from my camera phone as you can probably tell its not the best
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That thing is crazy! What a find.
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What a great find those teeth where made to eat trees , if the tooth is there maybe the ivory tusk is also ? WTO
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better pictures please. me want to see
Oldest U.S. Coin: 1787 Connecticut Copper
Oldest non U.S. Coin: 1777 Spanish half reale
Best civil war finds: Line A confederate button, NC button, 3 Connecticut buttons,New York officer cuff button, 3 Union officer sword belt plates, US box plate
I have a baby Mastodon Tooth, it looks much different than the Tooth you found.
I did not find my tooth, I paid $ for it at a Dino store. During this adventure to go Dino diggen/hunting,
in known locality, I stop at this great store in the area and when I spied this tooth, well lets just say it had to have me.
Cool find, and get more pics. That's a shape I'm not familiar with for mastodon teeth, as they were herbivores and their teeth were flat. Could be just the pic or the angle it was taken. Maybe you got a completely different animal and it would be cool to find out what it was.
Cool find, and get more pics. That's a shape I'm not familiar with for mastodon teeth, as they were herbivores and their teeth were flat. Could be just the pic or the angle it was taken. Maybe you got a completely different animal and it would be cool to find out what it was.
I've never seen one, but Mastodon translates to: "nipple tooth", so that seems to fit.
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