DEFINITELY A SEVERED BONE... but what kind? Need guidance

[Knsomers]

I found this bone on a beach in New Jersey yesterday. It was clearly cut by a tool so I can see the spongy bone part that looks like little canals. So definitely a bone. No question about that. My question is...WHAT could this bone have belonged to. It looks to me like the socket end of a ball and socket joint. But do fish or dolphins even have those joints? Is it even that type of joint? Am I crazy for thinking this could be a human bone? It’s just weird to me how it’s cut like that. Is this something I should report just in case? Or do these kinds of bones often pop up on beaches? Any advice or thoughts are appreciated! Also, in the pictures where I’m holding it, the bone is darker because it was wet.

 

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[trdking]

Looks like cow bone to me

 

[releventchair]

A butcher might have a quick answer.

 

[Knsomers]

Thanks! After looking at some pics, I’m definitely thinking along those lines. Small cow or maybe sheep scapula. Definitely the end of a shoulder blade of some type of animal.

 

[huntsman53]

Just in case it is human, it might be the right thing in turning it over to Law Enforcement along with showing them the location where it was found. IMHO, it appears to be the upper portion of the human tibia bone, the larger leg bone below the knee.

 

[Knsomers]

I was looking more at some scapula pictures of animals, and I’m just not as sure anymore. The circular concavity looks right, and the profile looks right, but there’s something off about the shape.

 

[Knsomers]

It does resemble the one end of a human tibia from a side view, but that circular concave portion of the bone I found doesn’t quite match the end view of a human tibia.

 

[zombieraccoon]

it looks like the flipper bone off of a orca, or similar, the cut off part would have been where the ball for the joint was.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Looks like a cut vertebrae, probably from a cow