Hey Redneckshadrap, this is off topic for this post but thought you might find it interesting beings you're a stream man,a guy canoeing/fishing the southfork of the Licking river here in Pendleton county found a mastodon bone recently,said he thought it was just an odd shaped log until further examination.It's at the Cincinnati Museum now.
Glenn P.

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David Boyers of Highland Heights found this twenty pound mastodon bone in the South Licking River this past summer. The bone is now in the possession of the Cincinnati Museum Center.

Highland Heights man makes rare bone discovery in South Licking River

By Jackie Vaughn, Reporter

David Boyers of Highland Heights has been canoeing and fishing the waters of the South Licking River since he was just a little boy. He was only five-years-old when his father started bringing him to this area. They would come here two or three times a year and it became an annual tradition.

Boyers, now 37, still tries to carry on this tradition and makes time to visit whenever he can. His latest trip though yielded a rare surprise.

After having Glen Thaxton of Thaxton's Canoe Rentals drop him, his girlfriend Amanda, and her son, Mikel, off upriver on Hayes Station Road, the three embarked on what they thought would be an ordinary, relaxing day on the lazy river.

"We had been on the river about 20 minutes when we stopped to do some fishing," said Boyers. "I was wading around in a two-foot pool of water, which was surrounded by rock islands, when I saw what I thought was an unusual looking, mossy-covered log."

"I jokingly yelled to Amanda and Mikel, 'Look at the size of this dinosaur bone!' I almost threw it back but the more I looked at it, the more it really did look like a large bone. I noticed a spongy material inside of it. I knew there were no animals in this area with bones quite this large so I put it in the canoe and took it home with me."

Boyers kept the find in the back of his truck for several weeks still unsure of whether he had found a bone or just an ordinary tree stump.

"I didn't want to take it somewhere to be looked at and end up being embarrassed," said Boyers. "I was afraid they were going to say that all I had was a log."

Boyers finally took the item to the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington where Archaeologist/anthropologist Jeanine Kreinbrink examined it and then sent him to the paleontologists at the Cincinnati Museum Center.