What is this bone under my front porch?

[u/PorcelainFD]

My home was built in 1891. I was under the enclosed front porch this evening to fill holes in the stone foundation because I’ve had some mouse visitors recently. There’s debris under there, broken glass, who knows what. I’m pretty sure this is a bone but it feels somewhat light - maybe it’s just old? It was sitting right on top of some rocky-looking junk in the far corner. No chew marks that I can see but it looks like it was cut with a saw. I assume it’s from an animal that was hunted or farmed.

Scale: I’m a smaller person and my hands are about 6 inches long.

[u/Adipshitwholikesbugs]

It definitely looks cut. Not sure there’s enough there to identify it… but you’re likely right about it being from an animal that was butchered

[u/PorcelainFD → u/Adipshitwholikesbugs]

Maybe it’s older than my house.

[u/Adipshitwholikesbugs → u/PorcelainFD]

Not sure, I’m no expert lol. But bones can age rather quickly or super slow depending on a wide variety of factors

[u/Jazzlike-Cow-925]

There is only one ?? Like something scavenged and carried it to go eat it in guessing. I found a lot of bones everywhere at my new house, burnt ones too, ones with saw marks I'm like wtf ?? Always animal luckily. Thank am guessing is someone's scapula ie deer (somethings*). An uneducated guess.

[u/PorcelainFD → u/Jazzlike-Cow-925]

Just the one, but I didn’t go digging around. I had work to do. Lol

[u/Cicada_XxXx]

Looks like a bone bought for a dog. I buy plenty of them and they look exactly like this shape wise

[u/PorcelainFD → u/Cicada_XxXx]

That was my thought but I couldn’t see any chew marks. Maybe Fido forgot about it.

[u/Cicada_XxXx → u/PorcelainFD]

Haha maybe he wasn’t too interested in it 😅

[u/PorcelainFD → u/Cicada_XxXx]

My dog takes all her antlers, bones, and toys outside to show them off to the neighbor dog, and that’s where they stay until I bring them back in. lol

[u/LetsGetCoffeeCore77]

NQA, I'm a casual lurker here furthering my fund of knowledge quietly, so can't say i know what the bone is from. But, from my dumb eye's view, It doesn't look like it was sawn due to there not being any visible striations on the bone's cut side - looks like it was done with more of a cleaver in one quick clean go. So some further evidence it was butchered. I am happy to be corrected, though, as I am here for knowledge and learning above all else.

[u/treasonousflower → u/LetsGetCoffeeCore77]

This was not chopped! This was done using an industrial saw :)

[u/PorcelainFD → u/LetsGetCoffeeCore77]

Good point. Thank you.

[u/PorcelainFD]

Could also be part of an antler. There were moose near here until about 100 years ago. Deer are still everywhere.