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Indentations at the front of the print appeared to be drag marks left by the dinosaur’s claws, not impressions of the claws themselves.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Indentations made by heavy strokes or a sharp pen, as well as those employed as guides for the signature subsequently written, will also be brought into prominence.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell

Indentations or hollows produced by the shot balloting against the surface of the bore, or by the action of the gases.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance