i recognised as a bone but kind of assumed it might be an animal bone, and i was rowing with friends of mine, and ijust thought it would be quite funny to pick out of the water and go, "oh, ifound a bone, ifound a bone!" when i picked up out of the water, i was kind of staring at this, which i recognised as a hipjoint, and then i thought, "that can't be..." i can't think of an animal with a hip joint like that. and then i actually put the bone in the boat with me, carried on my morning row, and when we got back, the few of us that were there, we looked at it and say, "this is definitely a human bone, and i'd better do something about it. " so, what did you do? what's the protocol? well, i wasn't sure, so i phoned the police, thinking... my initial thinking was, "this is old, it looks really old," and then of course you're thinking, "well, what if it isn't?" this could be quite