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Emperor mentioned that there are a lot of goats in that area, and myopsida suggested that a sheep's hoof (fairly similar) would also be about the same shape and size. The overgrown bit at the end does seem strange, if the ungulate were running up and down hills all day... but the presence on a river bank isn't that surprising. I have found all kinds of mammalian remains (in various conditions) washed up beside flowing water. The weirdest one was probably a human femur beside Bull Run Creek near Washington, D.C.; because the bone was fairly old (over a hundred years) and had a surprisingly round hole through the knee, and the creek runs through former Civil War battlefields north of the spot where I found it, I think it was from a soldier.