A week and North Myrtle Beach, SC beach hunting and hunting sharks teeth.

[Dick from NC]

Got down to North Myrtle beach,SC to do some work at the trailer and get in some beach hunting. Finially dug a tungesten carbide wedding band. Had a blast although it was hot.

 

[Dick from NC]

Finially figured out how to find sharks teeth. Ended up with 325 for the week.

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

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[Dig]

Beauty! Nice work on all those finds... Including the fossils. Looks like a couple of good Equus molars in there too.

 

[Magyar]

n/t

 

[Orlensin-FL]

wow what an assortment of goods. the sharks teeth round off an excellent group of finds.

 

[muggsc]

Don't know about the Equus molars, but nice sharks teeth!
Cal

 

[Dick from NC]

As it happens I came back from the beach in order to attend a meeting at the Rankin Museum in Ellerbe, NC. The Richmond County Historical Society had a meeting there today and the lady that oversees the museum told me that the tooth was indeed a horse tooth. It has to very old since it is petrified. I also had a small item that I had no idea what it was and she told me that it was a ray plate, which answered 2 of my questions. I'm ready to head back to the beach as soon as I can.

 

[Bobbie]

Did you dig and sift for them? Thats what we do in the rivers in FL.

 

[Dick from NC]

NO. These came from walking along the water line as the waves wash in and out and watching for the teeth. I've found if you walk in about ankle deep water you can see the teeth as they roll in and try to catch them before they get covered up. After a while you get use to see the shapes of the small teeth and even odd shapes that turn out to be bones or something unusual. I don't throw anything away until I know what it is. I picked up some items that I didn't know what they were but were unusual. They turned out to be a horse tooth and a ray plate. This is really a learning process, but a lot of fun. Some times you can find some large teeth if your lucky. I found a 3 inch meg tooth at Myrtle Beach while metal detecting and people were walking by and didn't even see it.

 

[muggsc]

Good call on the horse teeth. I still don't see um but that's not unusual.
Cal

 

[goodmore]

What kind of detector were you swinging? I am heading there the beginning of October.

 

[muggsc]

I think most of the Megalodon teeth are around 16 million years old. They didn't speculate on how old the horse teeth were did they?
Check these out
http://www.thefossilgallery.com/teeth.htm

 

[Dick from NC]

I'm using an Excalibur 800. As I'm detecting I'm looking for sharks teeth. Every once in a while you may dig a 50 calib. machine gun shell or slug. That area was used as a gunnery range off shore during WWII. When you go down give me an e-mail and I may be down at the same time. Good luck and happy hunting.

 

[Dick from NC]

The tooth I believe dates from the Miocene period 25 to 5 million years and was possibly a hypsodont horse. The tooth is petrified. This is why I don't throw anything away until I know what it is.

 

[muggsc]

Nice pics, Thanks for the info!
I'll have to keep my eyes open now I guess
Cal

 

[Jadesun]

awwesome finds

 

[ferdware]

Nice finds. and great pics.
Thankyou for sharing

FERD