One of the #wooden piles of the #pier that served the limestone quarries and brickworks at what is now #wwtcastleespie.
Each pile was a #tree trunk hammered upside-down into the shore of #StrangfordLough.
The more dense branches are eroding slower than the trunk, leaving these #skeletal structures sticking out of the #mud.
Anyone good at #Identifying #AnimalBones? Found this #carcass in the woods.
What was it?
#Magnesium #whitlockite formation in the alveolar #bone, with #bisphosphonate exposure and #osteolytic #skeletal #metastasis. Scanning electron microscopy, Micro-Raman spectroscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy revealed Mg-rich, rhomboidal nodules (~200 nm to ~2.4 µm) within the lacuno-canalicular space. Mg-whitlockite formation within #osteocyte lacunae is multifactorial in #nature and suggests altered bone #biomineralization.
